Chapter 1. Understanding the HBase Ecosystem
HBase is a horizontally scalable, distributed, open source, and a sorted map database. It runs on top of Hadoop file system that is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). HBase is a NoSQL nonrelational database that doesn't always require a predefined schema. It can be seen as a scaling flexible, multidimensional spreadsheet where any structure of data is fit with on-the-fly addition of new column fields, and fined column structure before data can be inserted or queried. In other words, HBase is a column-based database that runs on top of Hadoop distributed file system and supports features such as linear scalability (scale out), automatic failover, automatic sharding, and more flexible schema.
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