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.