Using Facebook’s Thrift with Python and HBase - theatr.us - Yann's MusingsJuly 19, 2008 Using Facebook’s Thrift with Python and HBase Today I’m going to show you how to interface Python to Apache HBase using Facebook’s Thrift package. Hbase is a documented oriented database which is very similar to Google’s BigTable (in fact its more or less a clone of BigTable as seen in the BigTable paper). HBase has two primary interfaces - a REST API which is relatively slow, and a
