Audience
Application Developers looking for an advanced Columnar Databases solution
About Apache HBase
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. Automatic failover support between RegionServers. Easy to use Java API for client access. Thrift gateway and a REST-ful Web service that supports XML, Protobuf, and binary data encoding options. Support for exporting metrics via the Hadoop metrics subsystem to files or Ganglia; or via JMX.
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Company Information
The Apache Software Foundation
Founded: 1999
United States
hbase.apache.org
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Platforms Supported
Cloud
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Documentation
Apache HBase Frequently Asked Questions
Apache HBase Product Features
NoSQL Database
Auto-sharding
Data Model Flexibility
Deployment Flexibility
Dynamic Schemas
Integrated Caching
Automatic Database Replication
Multi-Model
Performance Management
Security Management