HBase Introduction

HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google’s Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data. You can use HBase when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. More information at Apache HBase.

HBase Data Model

HBase is a Columnar data store, also called Tabular data store. The main difference of acolumn-oriented database compared to a row-oriented database (RBMS) is about how data is stored in disk.