HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of the Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS or Alluxio, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop, storing large quantities of sparse data in a fault-tolerant way.
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SignificanceA Hadoop-ecosystem wide-column store modeled on Google's Bigtable design, built for massive sparse datasets. 1 Connections
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Apache HBase was modeled after Google's Bigtable design and reimplements a similar data model on top of Hadoop's HDFS.
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HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java.
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