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 0.20.

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 Cloudera CDH3 Hadoop on a Debian system.

The migration to Python 3 and Thumbor 7 was tested on Cloudera CDH5 Hadoop on a CentOS system.

You will need to install HBase and HBase-Thrift.

You have to install Thumbor following the Thumbor Installation Guide.

Finally, install the HBase Storage Module :

pip install git+https://github.com/gbif/thumbor_hbase

Using it is simple, just change your configuration in thumbor.conf:

HBASE_STORAGE_SERVER_HOST = 'localhost'
HBASE_STORAGE_SERVER_PORT = 9090
HBASE_STORAGE_TABLE = b'storage-table'
HBASE_STORAGE_FAMILY = b'storage-family'

and create a suitable table in HBase. (You may well want to investigate Medium Object Storage and adjust this command accordingly):

create 'thumbor', 'image'

If you want to use thumbor_hbase for loading original images, change your thumbor.conf to read:

LOADER = "thumbor_hbase.loader"

If you want to use thumbor_hbase for storage of original images, change your thumbor.conf to read:

STORAGE = "thumbor_hbase.storage"

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

pip install pyvows

and run tests with :

pyvows -c -l thumbor_hbase

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