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diff --git a/databases/hbase/pkg-descr b/databases/hbase/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..51a74169b216 --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/hbase/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +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. + +Features: +-- Linear and modular scalability +-- Strictly consistent reads and writes +-- Automatic and configurable sharding of tables +-- Automatic failover support between RegionServers +-- Convenient base classes for backing Hadoop MapReduce jobs with + Apache HBase tables +-- Easy to use Java API for client access +-- Block cache and Bloom Filters for real-time queries +-- Query predicate push down via server side Filters +-- Thrift gateway and a REST-ful Web service that supports XML, Protobuf + and binary data encoding options +-- Extensible jruby-based (JIRB) shell +-- Support for exporting metrics via the Hadoop metrics subsystem to files + or Ganglia, or via JMX + +WWW: http://hbase.apache.org/ |