The origin of HBase
Looking at the limitations of GFS and MR, Google approached another solution, which not only uses GFS for data storage but it is also used for processing the smaller data files very efficiently. They called this new solution BigTable.
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BigTable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.
Welcome to the world of HBase, http://hbase.apache.org/. HBase is a NoSQL database that primarily works on top of Hadoop. HBase is based on the storage architecture followed by the BigTable. HBase inherits the storage design from the column-oriented databases and the data access design from the keyvalue store databases ...
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