Apache HBase
The wide-column store of the Hadoop world, modelled on Google's Bigtable and built on HDFS. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Apache Software Foundation
- Created by
- Michael Stack, Jim Kellerman
- First release
- 2008
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://hbase.apache.org
- Written in
- Java
- Data model
- Wide-column
- Storage layout
- Row-oriented
- Workload
- Transactions (OLTP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- HBase API
- ACID transactions
- No
- Schema
- Flexible
- Deployment
- Distributed cluster
- Scaling
- Natively distributed
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Writes go to a memstore and a log); Read: moderate (Fast by row key, scans by key range only); Update: fast (An update is just another write); Delete: moderate (Tombstones until compaction)