Requirements ------------- - Java 1.5.x, preferably from Sun. - Hadoop 0.16.x. This version of HBase will only run on Hadoop 0.16.x.. - ssh must be installed and sshd must be running to use Hadoop's scripts to manage remote Hadoop daemons. - HBase currently is a file handle hog. The usual default of 1024 on *nix systems is insufficient if you are loading any significant amount of data into regio..