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| = Apache HBase™ Home |
| |
| .Welcome to Apache HBase(TM) |
| link:http://www.apache.org/[Apache HBase(TM)] is the link:http://hadoop.apache.org[Hadoop] database, a distributed, scalable, big data store. |
| |
| .When Would I Use 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. |
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| Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's link:http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html[Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data] by Chang et al. |
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| 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 |
| |
| .Where Can I Get More Information? |
| See the link:book.html#arch.overview[Architecture Overview], the link:book.html#faq[FAQ] and the other documentation links at the top! |
| |
| .Export Control |
| The HBase distribution includes cryptographic software. See the link:export_control.html[export control notice]. |
| |
| == News |
| Feb 17, 2015:: link:http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/219260093/[HBase meetup around Strata+Hadoop World] in San Jose |
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| January 15th, 2015:: link:http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/218744798/[HBase meetup @ AppDynamics] in San Francisco |
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| November 20th, 2014:: link:http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/205219992/[HBase meetup @ WANdisco] in San Ramon |
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| October 27th, 2014:: link:http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/207386102/[HBase Meetup @ Apple] in Cupertino |
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| October 15th, 2014:: link:http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/207655552[HBase Meetup @ Google] on the night before Strata/HW in NYC |
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| September 25th, 2014:: link:http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/203173692/[HBase Meetup @ Continuuity] in Palo Alto |
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| August 28th, 2014:: link:http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/197773762/[HBase Meetup @ Sift Science] in San Francisco |
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| July 17th, 2014:: link:http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/190994082/[HBase Meetup @ HP] in Sunnyvale |
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| June 5th, 2014:: link:http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-Summit-Community-San-Jose/events/179081342/[HBase BOF at Hadoop Summit], San Jose Convention Center |
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| May 5th, 2014:: link:http://www.hbasecon.com[HBaseCon2014] at the Hilton San Francisco on Union Square |
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| March 12th, 2014:: link:http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/160757912/[HBase Meetup @ Ancestry.com] in San Francisco |
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| View link:old_news.html[Old News] |