Spring data Hadoop, Hbase Rest API, HBase Java Client : which one would be the best to implement to handle communication between Android and HBase

Question

Does anybody know what is the best method to communicate between HBase database and Android?

Basically I want to do following from my Android app to HBase table:

i.   Insert data into it.
ii.  Query table and get data.
iii. Update table.

I had done some research of my own.

1. HBase Rest API

   I found the functionality of the this api very limited. I want to access multiple rows from a table. This api only allows a single row to be selected. Also, perhaps no query support and less documentation is surely not making me use this api. And I dont want to expose DB directly.

2. Spring data Hadoop

   Frankly, I am not familiar with Spring. I read that it supports HBaseTemplate. Does anybody had used this with HBase and exposed it as a web api.

3. HBase JAVA Client api

   I believe Spring data Hadoop is more flexible than this.

So I believe 2. is the way to go.

Does anybody had tried something different, more cool and simpler.

EDIT:

I have solved my problem. I created a RESTFUL web Service with Spring-data-Hadoop.

Answer 1

I created a restful service with Spring data Hadoop. This solved the problem.