Use Apache HBase™ when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data.

Apache HBase™ is the Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, big data store.

Use Apache HBase™ when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware. Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, Apache HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS.

Features

• Linear and modular scalability.
• Strictly consistent reads and writes.
• Automatic and configurable sharding of tables
• Automatic failover support between RegionServers.
• Convenient base classes for backing Hadoop MapReduce jobs with Apache HBase tables.
• Easy to use Java API for client access.
• Block cache and Bloom Filters for real-time queries.
• Query predicate push down via server side Filters
• Thrift gateway and a REST-ful Web service that supports XML, Protobuf, and binary data encoding options
• Extensible jruby-based (JIRB) shell
• Support for exporting metrics via the Hadoop metrics subsystem to files or Ganglia; or via JMX