As told in HBase introduction, HBase provides Extensible jruby-based (JIRB) shell as a feature to execute some commands(each command represents one functionality). HBase shell commands are mainly categorized into 6 parts 1) General HBase shell commands status Show cluster status. Can be ‘summary’, ‘simple’, or ‘detailed’. The default is ‘summary’. hbase> status hbase> status ‘simple’ hbase> statu