How-to: Use the Apache HBase REST Interface, Part 1 by Jesse Anderson.
From the post:
There are various ways to access and interact with Apache HBase. The Java API provides the most functionality, but many people want to use HBase without Java.
There are two main approaches for doing that: One is the Thrift interface, which is the faster and more lightweight of the two options. The other way to access HBase is using the REST interface, which uses HTTP verbs to perform an action, giving developers a wide choice of languages and programs to use.
This series of how-to’s will discuss the REST interface and provide Python code samples for accessing it. The first post will cover HBase REST, some Python caveats, and table administration. The second post will explain how to insert multiple rows at a time using XML and JSON. The third post will show how to get multiples rows using XML and JSON. The full code samples can be found on my GitHub account.
Post also has a reminder about HBaseCon 2013 (June 13, San Francisco).