Chapter 10. HBase Use Cases

In this chapter, we will walk through some HBase user cases, zoom in the project layout and design to understand how to utilize HBase for different business usages, and provide some references to you for further development.

We will see the use case and architecture used at:

  • Facebook
  • Groupon
  • Pinterest
  • LongTail Video

This chapter will also show how these leading entities are using HBase for their project and the architecture of the project.

HBase in industry today

With the increase in demand for Big Data day by day in order to solve the problems comprising planet-size data, HBase is one of the players due to its characteristic of persistent read performance. Using these systems, one can store and analyze data in coordination ...

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