Apache HBase And It’s Features Apache HBase is an open-source and non-relational distributed database modeled after Google’s Bigtable, which is written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation’s Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS or Alluxio, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop. Apache HBase was began as a project by the company Powerset out of a need to process massive amounts of data for the purposes of natural-language search. It is now a top-level Apache project. Facebook elected to implement its new messaging platform using HBase in November 2010, but migrated away from HBase …
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