April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
8h 54m
English
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Introducing HBase
HBase is a column-oriented database that prides itself on its ability to provide both consistency and scalability. It is based on Bigtable, a high-performance, proprietary database developed by Google and described in the 2006 white paper “Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data.”[12] Initially created for natural language processing, HBase started life as a contrib package for Apache Hadoop. Since then, it has become a top-level Apache project.
Luc says:
Hosted HBase with Google Cloud Bigtable
As you’ll see later in this chapter, HBase can be tricky to administer. Fortunately, there’s now a compelling option ...