The HBase online store provides support for materializing feature values into an Apache HBase database for serving online features in real-time.
- Each feature view is mapped to an HBase table
- Connects to HBase via the Thrift server using happybase
In order to use this online store, you'll need to run pip install 'feast[hbase]'.
{% code title="feature_store.yaml" %}
project: my_feature_repo
registry: data/registry.db
provider: local
online_store:
type: hbase
host: localhost
port: "9090"
connection_pool_size: 4 # optional
protocol: binary # optional
transport: buffered # optional{% endcode %}
The full set of configuration options is available in HbaseOnlineStoreConfig.
The set of functionality supported by online stores is described in detail here. Below is a matrix indicating which functionality is supported by the HBase online store.
| HBase | |
|---|---|
| write feature values to the online store | yes |
| read feature values from the online store | yes |
| update infrastructure (e.g. tables) in the online store | yes |
| teardown infrastructure (e.g. tables) in the online store | yes |
| generate a plan of infrastructure changes | no |
| support for on-demand transforms | yes |
| readable by Python SDK | yes |
| readable by Java | no |
| readable by Go | no |
| support for entityless feature views | yes |
| support for concurrent writing to the same key | no |
| support for ttl (time to live) at retrieval | no |
| support for deleting expired data | no |
| collocated by feature view | yes |
| collocated by feature service | no |
| collocated by entity key | no |
To compare this set of functionality against other online stores, please see the full functionality matrix.