Hbase Bulk Load Example

Simple Hbase Bulk Load example to load the enron email corpus into a table.

Setup

• download and unpack the enron emails from cs.cmu.edu/~./enron/
• reference the conf folder of your hbase installation when running a standalone setup or manually set up the configuration in the BulkLoad class
• get the maven dependencies
• run the program with the arguments unpacked emails target path for hfile table name for bulk import

Note that the mapreduce job might consume a lot of memory so that excessive GC is needed.
You might want to split the task into smaller portions when running on a single node.