Introducing H-Rider

in the last year and half or so (since i  joined nice systems ) we’ve been hard at work building our big data platform based on a  lot of open source technologies including hadoop and hbase and quite a few others. building on open source brings a lot of benefits and helps cut development time by building on the knowledge and effort of other.

i personally think that this has to be  two-way street and as a company benefits for open source it should also give something back. this is why i am very happy to introduce nice’s first (hopefully first of many) contribution back to the open source community. a ui dev tool for working with hbase called h-rider. h-rider offers a convenient user interface to poke around data stored in hbase which our developers find very useful both for development and debugging

h-rider is developer and maintained by igor cher , one of the best developers

here is some more blurb from the hrider git wiki :

what is h-rider?

the h-rider is a ui application created to provide an easier way to view or manipulate the data saved in the distributed database - hbase™ - that supports structured data storage for large tables.

getting started

to get started, begin here:

1. learn about h-rider by reading the manual.
2. download h-rider from the release page (or git clone from the repo )