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HBase is the Hadoop database. Think of it as a super-fast reliable Big Data store. +

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- HBase is the Hadoop database. Use it when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. + Use HBase when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware. -HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop. -HBase includes: +HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured by Chang et al. + Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS. +

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November 29th, Developer Pow-Wow in SF at Salesforce HQ

November 7th, HBase Meetup in NYC (6PM) at the AppNexus office

August 22nd, HBase Hackathon (11AM) and Meetup (6PM) at FB in PA