Documentation

How to Build - This document describes how to install the required dependencies and build Hypertable on various platforms

Architectural Overview - This document provides an architectural overview of Hypertable and includes references to the source code

Up and Running with Hadoop - This short document describes the steps necessary to get Hypertable up and running on top of the Hadoop DFS.

HQL Tutorial - This document gives a walk-through of a sample session with the HQL command interpreter using a real world example with some real world data.

Thrift client API reference - Generated documentation from Thrift IDLs for Hypertable client services

HyperRecord - This document describes the integration of Hypertable with ActiveRecord, the Ruby on Rails ORM.

Thrift Client for Ruby - This document describes how to use the Thrift client to access Hypertable from Ruby

Config Property Reference - This document describes all of the available config file properties.

Source Documentation - Doxygen documentation for the source code. Includes class references, class relationship diagrams, and annotated source files.

Known Deficiencies - This document lists the deficiencies known to exist in the current release and all previous releases.

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News and Announcements

June 22 2009
Rediff.com becomes an official sponsor of the Hypertable project. Thanks! »
February 9 2009
O'Reilly Velocity has selected Hypertable for the 2009 Conference Program
June 22 - 24, Velocity 2009» San Jose, CA