Thumbor is a smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, resizing and flipping of images.

HBase is a column oriented database from the Hadoop ecosystem.

This module provide support for Hadoop HBase as a large auto replicant key/value backend storage for images in Thumbor.

The current version of the module is 0.9.

In order to install the HBase Storage Module for Thumbor, you have to install Hadoop / HBase ecosystem first.

The HBase Storage Module for Thumbor was originally developed and tested on a Cloudera CDH3 Hadoop on a Debian system.

You can follow the CDH3 Installation Guide for Ubuntu/Debian Systems Systems and install the following packages :

sudo apt-get install hadoop-0.20 hadoop-0.20-native 
sudo apt-get install hadoop-hbase hadoop-hbase-thrift

You can follow the CDH3 Installation Guide for RedHat Systems and install the following packages :

sudo yum install hadoop-0.20 hadoop-0.20-native
sudo yum install hadoop-hbase hadoop-hbase-thrift

You have to install Thumbor following the Thumbor Installation Guide...

... and finally the HBase Storage Module :

pip install thumbor_hbase

In order to execute pyvows tests, you have to install pyvows :

pip install pyvows 

and run tests with :

pyvows vows

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