I'll just briefly echo the sentiments of other recent reviewers: the book is very comprehensive, and was undoubtedly THE HBase book to have -- in 2011, when it was published. Today, it is sorely out of date, begging for a 2nd edition. There is still useful information to be gleaned from it, at the big-picture, conceptual level. But many of the details, of configuration, deployment, and API, though laudably in-depth, are simply wrong today (especially if you're looking at HBase 1.x), and sometimes laughably so.
Also, I've found the text loses all its formatting on my Kindle Fire, making it very hard to read, though oddly it comes out fine in the Kindle app on my iPhone 6+. Presumably the print edition does not suffer from this flaw.
Though I can't recommend the book wholeheartedly, some readers may still find it useful for the depth of its coverage of architecture and implementation, from one of the earliest adopters and contributors.
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