HBase
HBase is the database used by Hadoop. Hadoop is the Apache Project’s free software application for processing huge amounts of data across large clusters of compute nodes in a cluster. Hadoop is modeled in part after the information in Google’s MapReduce and Google File System papers. HBase is to BigTable what Hadoop is to MapReduce.
The main feature of HBase is its ability to host very large tables, on the scale of billions of rows across millions of columns. It is designed to host them on commodity hardware. HBase provides a RESTful web service interface that supports many formats and encodings and is optimized for real-time queries.
Numerous companies are using Hadoop, including some very big names like Amazon, eBay, Facebook, IBM, LinkedIn, ...
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