Getting started with Apache HBase
HBase is a highly scalable distributed NoSQL data store that supports columnar-style data storage. HBase is modeled after Google's Bigtable. HBase uses HDFS for data storage and allows random access of data, which is not possible in HDFS.
The HBase table data model can be visualized as a very large multi-dimensional sorted map. HBase tables consist of rows, each of which has a unique Row Key, followed by a list of columns. Each row can have any number of columns and doesn't have to adhere to a fixed schema. Each data cell (column in a particular row) can have multiple values based on timestamps, resulting in a three-dimensional table (row, column, timestamp). HBase stores all the rows and columns in a sorted order ...
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