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      <h3>Apache Accumulo&reg; is a sorted, distributed key/value store that provides robust, scalable data storage and retrieval.</h3>
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    <p id="home-description">With Apache Accumulo, users can store and manage large data sets across a cluster. Accumulo uses <a href="https://hadoop.apache.org">Apache Hadoop</a>'s HDFS to store its data and <a href="https://zookeeper.apache.org">Apache ZooKeeper</a> for consensus. While many users interact directly with Accumulo, several <a href="/related-projects">open source projects</a> use Accumulo as their underlying store.</p>
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    <h3>Major Features</h3>

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        <p>Accumulo has a programming mechanism (called <a href="{{ site.docs_baseurl }}/development/iterators">Iterators</a>) that can modify key/value pairs at various points in the data management process.</p>
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        <h4>Cell-based access control</h4>
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        <h4>Designed to scale</h4>
        <p>Accumulo runs on a cluster using <a href="{{ site.docs_baseurl }}/administration/multivolume">one or more HDFS instances</a>. Nodes can be added or removed as the amount of data stored in Accumulo changes.</p>
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        <h4>Stable</h4>
        <p>Accumulo has a stable <a href="/latest/apidocs">client API</a> that follows <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/contributor/versioning">LTM releases and semantic versioning</a>. Each Accumulo release goes through <a href="{{ site.docs_baseurl }}/getting-started/features#testing">extensive testing</a>.</p>
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