Advantages of HBase
HBase has good number of benefits and is a good solution in many use cases. Let us check some of the advantages of HBase:
- Random and consistent Reads/Writes access in high volume request
- Auto failover and reliability
- Flexible, column-based multidimensional map structure
- Variable Schema: columns can be added and removed dynamically
- Integration with Java client, Thrift and REST APIs
- MapReduce and Hive/Pig integration
- Auto Partitioning and sharding
- Low latency access to data
- BlockCache and Bloom filters for query optimization
- HBase allows data compression and is ideal for sparse data
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