Applications of HBase

The applications of HBase are as follows:

  • Medical: HBase is used in the medical field for storing genome sequences and running MapReduce on it, storing the disease history of people or an area, and many others.
  • Sports: HBase is used in the sports field for storing match histories for better analytics and prediction.
  • Web: HBase is used to store user history and preferences for better customer targeting.
  • Oil and petroleum: HBase is used in the oil and petroleum industry to store exploration data for analysis and predict probable places where oil can be found.
  • e-commerce: HBase is used for recording and storing logs about customer search history, and to perform analytics and then target advertisement for better business.
  • Other fields ...

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