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1 Introduction

Apache HBase™ is the Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, big data store.

Use Apache 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. Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, Apache HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS.

Pig和Hive还为HBase提供了高层语言支持，使得在HBase上进行数据统计处理变的非常简单。Sqoop则为HBase提供了方便的RDBMS数据导入功能，使得传统数据库数据向HBase中迁移变的非常方便。

2 Reference

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cn/analytics/library/ba-cn-bigdata-hbase/index.html