HBase is the Hadoop database. Think of it as a distributed, scalable Big Data store. Use this reference card to get started with Apache HBase today.
Use HBase when you need random, real-time read/write access to your Big Data. The goal of the HBase project is to host very large tables — billions of rows multiplied by millions of columns — on clusters built with commodity hardware. HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google’s Bigtable. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS.
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