Copy a table in HBase

Question

Is it possible to create a table using another existing table like Create Table as select * from ;?

Answer 1

Directly its not possible as in case of hive but there is a way. Assuming you want to copy the table on the same cluster you can use HBase snapshots in the hbase shell you can

snapshot 'sourceTable', 'sourceTable-snapshot'

clone_snapshot 'sourceTable-snapshot', 'newTable'