HBase Post-Upgrade Tasks

Switch to relying on shaded artifacts

After upgrading from CDH 5 to CDH 6, the HBase client applications have to switch to hbase-shaded-client and hbase-shaded-mapreduce artifacts as dependencies. Cloudera recommends relying on the Maven coordinates org.apache.hbase:hbase-shaded-client for their runtime use.

Users of HBase's integration for Apache Hadoop MapReduce must switch to relying on the org.apache.hbase:hbase-shaded-mapreduce module for their runtime use. Neither org.apache.hbase:hbase-server nor org.apache.hbase:hbase-shaded-server artifacts are supported anymore.

Note that both artifacts expose some classes in the org.apache.hadoop package space (for example o.a.h.configuration.Configuration) to maintain source compatibility with the public API. Those classes are included so that they can be altered to use the same relocated third party dependencies as the rest of the HBase client code. In the event that you need to also use Hadoop in your code, you should ensure all Hadoop related jars precede the HBase client jar in your classpath.