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What is Apache HBase?



HBase is an open source, multidimensional, distributed, scalable and a NoSQL database written in Java. HBase runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and provides BigTable (Google) like capabilities to Hadoop. It is designed to provide a fault tolerant way of storing large collection of sparse data sets. HBase achieves high throughput and low latency by providing faster Read/Write Access on huge data sets.