Thrift API This page discusses the Thrift client API for Hbase. Thrift is both cross-platform and more lightweight than REST for many operations. The latest version of the Hbase Thrift API is described by Hbase.thrift. Using the API Generating a Thrift client package Once Thrift is installed, use: thrift --gen [lang] [hbase-root]/src/main/resources/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/Hbase.thriftlang s