Apache HBase
Apache HBase is a distributed, versioned, column-oriented, scalable and a big data store on top of Hadoop/HDFS. The following are a few highlights of this project:
- HBase is based on Google's BigTable concept.
- Runs on top of Hadoop and HDFS in a distributed fashion.
- Supports Billions of Rows and Millions of Columns.
- Runs on a cluster of commodity hardware and scales linearly.
- Offers consistent reads and writes.
- Offers easy to use Java APIs for client access.
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