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.