HBase API不同的版本有一些细微的差异，1.x系列的主要API基本未变。详细请参考：Apache hbase shell

数据定义

• 创建表

  语法：create '<table>', '<column_family>' [, '<column_family>', ...]
  例子：新建一张包括f1、f2列族的表名威test的表：create 'test', 'f1', 'f2'

• 检测表模式

hbase(main):002:0> list
TABLE
users
1 row(s) in 0.0180 seconds
=> ["users"]
hbase(main):003:0> desc 'users'
Table users is ENABLED
users
COLUMN FAMILIES DESCRIPTION
{NAME => 'info', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', VERSIONS => '1', IN_MEMORY => 'false', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'FALSE', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', TTL
 => 'FOREVER', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', BLOCKCACHE => 'true', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0'}
1 row(s) in 0.0750 seconds