HBase Pseudo distributed or Fully distributed mode?

Question

I have a single linux(ubuntu) server in development environment and I plan to use a single server for production environment as well.

I have crawl data generated from Nutch 2.2.1 that I would like to store in HBase 0.90.6. Since, I don't intend to use multiple machines, (all I have is a single server) which mode of HBase is ideal for production env in my case - pseudo or fully-distributed?

Answer 1

Pseudo distributed mode would be better as in Standalone mode local FS is used. This means you cannot take advantage of the parallelism provided by the HDFS+MR combo.