HBase is an

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modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in

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. It is developed as part of

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's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) or

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, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop. That is, it provides a

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way of storing large quantities of sparse data (small amounts of information caught within a large collection of empty or unimportant data, such as finding the 50 largest items in a group of 2 billion records, or finding the non-zero items representing less than 0.1% of a huge collection). HBase features compression, in-memory operation, and Bloom filters on a per-column basis as outlined in the original Bigtable paper. Tables in HBase can serve as the input and output for

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jobs run in Hadoop, and may be accessed through the Java API but also through

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, Avro or Thrift gateway APIs. HBase is a

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and has been widely adopted because of its lineage with Hadoop and HDFS. HBase runs on top of HDFS and is well-suited for fast read and write operations on large datasets with high throughput and low input/output latency. HBase is not a direct replacement for a classic SQL

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, however Apache Phoenix project provides a SQL layer for HBase as well as

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driver that can be integrated with various analytics and

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applications. The

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project provides a SQL query engine with

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and

drivers and distributed ACID transaction protection across multiple statements, tables and rows that use HBase as a storage engine. HBase is now serving several data-driven websites but

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's Messaging Platform migrated from HBase to

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in 2018.Facebook: Why our 'next-gen' comms ditched MySQL
Retrieved: 17 December 2010 Unlike relational and traditional databases, HBase does not support SQL scripting; instead the equivalent is written in Java, employing similarity with a MapReduce application. In the parlance of Eric Brewer's

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, HBase is a CP type system.

History

Apache HBase began as a project by the company

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out of a need to process massive amounts of data for the purposes of natural-language search. Since 2010 it is a top-level Apache project.

elected to implement its new messaging platform using HBase in November 2010, but migrated away from HBase in 2018. The 2.2.z series is the current stable release line, it supersedes earlier release lines.

Use cases & production deployments

Enterprises that use HBase

The following is a list of notable enterprises that have used or are using HBase: * 23andMe *

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uses HBase as part of its AirStream realtime stream computation framework * Alibaba Group *

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, as its main long-term storage DB. *

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, for time series data storage *

used HBase for its messaging platform between 2010 and 2018 *

Flipkart Flipkart Private Limited is an Indian e-commerce company, headquartered in Bengaluru, and incorporated in Singapore as a private limited company. The company initially focused on online book sales before expanding into other product categories ...

uses HBase for its search index and user insights. * Flurry *

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uses HBase to power its notifications system *

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* Richrelevance *

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* Sears *

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, for some of their back-end systems. *

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uses HBase as base for Hadoop and machine learning jobs. *

Tuenti Tuenti Technologies, S.L.U is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that operates with the Tuenti brand owned by Telefónica. It is a Spain-based tech company that focuses on providing a cloud-based services through its own application and i ...

uses HBase for its messaging platform. *

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References

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External links

* /hbase.apache.org/ Official Apache HBase homepage {{DEFAULTSORT:Hbase

HBase HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File Sys ...