1) Download hbase from https://hbase.apache.org/ (1.2.1)

2) untar and move to a convenient location. Rename the extracted folder to HBase

3) In HBase/conf/hbase-site.xml, add the following in between the configuration tags

<property>
   <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>
   <value>true</value>
</property>

<property>
   <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
   <value>hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase</value>
</property>


	<property>
      <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
      <value><Any Directory>/zookeeper</value>
   </property>

4) In HBase/conf/hbase-env.sh 
Update JAVA_HOME 
On Macs : export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
On Linux machines: Google for the Java home directory for your Linux and Java versions

5) update .bash_profile on Mac/.bashrc on Linux
export HBASE_HOME=$HOME/HBase
export PATH="$HBASE_HOME/bin:$PATH"

6) Start HBase

> cd $HBASE_HOME
>./bin/start-hbase.sh
>./bin/local-master-backup.sh start 2
> ./bin/./local-regionservers.sh start 3

Check the web interface at 
http://localhost:16010

7) Start HBase shell 
> hbase shell 

8) Try the following commands 

hbase(main):001:0> status
hbase(main):003:0> list
hbase(main):004:0> create 'Sales','Transactions'
hbase(main):006:0> put 'Sales','1','Transactions:Date','20160501'
hbase(main):007:0> put 'Sales','1','Transactions:Amount','3000'
hbase(main):008:0> scan 'Sales'
hbase(main):009:0> exit

9) Stopping HBase
$ ./bin/./local-regionservers.sh stop 3
$ ls /tmp
$ cat /tmp/hbase-<YOUR USER NAME>-2-master.pid|xargs kill -9
$ ./bin/stop-hbase.sh