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What's New in Apache HBase

Learn about the new features of Apache HBase in Cloudera Runtime 7.3.1.0.

What's New in Cloudera Runtime 7.3.1:

HBase supports JDK 17
HBase supports Oracle JDK version 17.0.6 starting from CDP Runtime 7.1.9. For more information on JDK 17, see Java Requirements.
HBase rebase to 2.4.17
CDP Private Cloud Base is updated to use Apache HBase version 2.4.17 and Apache HBase Thirdparty to base version 4.1.1 for a smoother and better functionality. Upgrade your HBase client applications for seamless connectivity.
HBase supports Snappy with /tmp directory mounted with noexec option
In Cloudera Manager, the Snappy temporary directory configuration item is added to HBase Master and HBase RegionServer to allow Snappy compression when /tmp directory is mounted with noexec option.
Operating system support
HBase is now supported on the following operating systems:
  • RHEL-9.1
  • RHEL-8.8
  • RHEL-8.8 FIPS
  • Oracle-8.8 UEK
  • SLES-15 SP4 for x86
HBase supports load balancing using a cache-aware load balancer
The HBase balancer now supports the cache-aware load balancer that enhances the capability of HBase to enable the balancer to consider the cache allocation of each region on region servers while calculating a new assignment plan. This balancer also uses the region or region server cache allocation information reported by the region servers to calculate the percentage of HFiles cached for each region on the hosting server, and then use that as an additional factor while deciding an optimal new assignment plan.
HBase supports Snappy with /tmp directory mounted with noexec option
In Cloudera Manager, the Snappy temporary directory configuration item is added to HBase Master and HBase RegionServer to allow Snappy compression when /tmp directory is mounted with noexec option.
HBase supports Netty native libraries with /tmp directory mounted with noexec option
In Cloudera Manager, the Netty native library working directory configuration item is added to HBase Master and HBase RegionServer to support HBase with /tmp directory mounted with noexec option.
HBase shows cached percentage for region data on RegionServer UI
An important feature for Cloudera Operational Database (COD) over S3 with ephemeral cache is the process of warming up the cache at region opening (also known as cache prefetch). The goal is to load the most of the dataset before any client reads, so that a reduced latency and optimal performance can be achieved for the application requests. This prefetch process takes several hours on very large datasets, and the operators might want to monitor the progress of this cache loading. To handle this, HBase has introduced new metrics about the percentage of individual regions data currently cached, and it also added this information to the Storefile Metrics tab in the Regions section of the RegionServer UI.
Related Apache JIRA: HBASE-28246


HBase supports disabling the caching for the individual column families
In some use cases, not all tables in the dataset have the same SLA requirements. If the total cache capacity is much smaller than the whole dataset, an alternative is to restrict the cache usage by the tables with critical response times. In HBase, you can now implement this by disabling the cache on individual column families.

On an hbase shell, perform the following alter command for each column family that does not require caching.

alter 'NAMESPACE:TABLENAME', {NAME=>'CF_NAME', BLOCKCACHE => 'false'}
HBase supports truncating the regions in a table
You can now truncate individual regions of an HBase table using the truncate_region command.

The command syntax is as follows.

truncate_region ‘REGIONNAME’

truncate_region ‘ENCODED_REGIONNAME’

For example,

hbase:008:0> list_regions 'employee'
                                                   SERVER_NAME |                                                REGION_NAME |  START_KEY |    END_KEY |  SIZE |   REQ |   LOCALITY |
 ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ---------- |
 ccycloud-4.nightly-7x-by.root.comops.site,22101,1718869191555 |  employee,,1718877308795.66828b0fe6ceda3e28608617eb6f6b3f. |            |          2 |     1 |     2 |        1.0 |
 ccycloud-2.nightly-7x-by.root.comops.site,22101,1718869191308 | employee,2,1718877308795.ff9b19452fecea6353694583e3473b5b. |          2 |            |     1 |     2 |        1.0 |
 2 rows
Took 0.1088 seconds   
hbase:014:0> truncate_region 'employee,2,1718877308795.ff9b19452fecea6353694583e3473b5b.'
Took 0.6236 seconds
hbase:010:0> truncate_region 'ff9b19452fecea6353694583e3473b5b'
Took 0.6500 seconds