Welcome to HBase!
HBase is the Hadoop database. Its an open-source, distributed, column-oriented store modeled after the Google paper, 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, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop.
HBase's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware. Try it if your plans for a data store run to big.
News
June, 2009 -- HBase at HadoopSummit2009 and at NOSQL
See the presentations
March 3rd, 2009 -- HUG6
January 30th, 2009 -- LA Hbackathon
HBase January Hackathon Los Angeles at Streamy in Manhattan Beach
January 14th, 2000 -- HUG5
HBase User Group 5 at the Powerset in SF
Getting Started
Start by installing HBase on a single machine or a very small cluster.
- Learn about HBase by reading the documentation.
- Download HBase from the release page.
Getting Involved
HBase is an open source volunteer project under the Apache Software Foundation. It is a subproject of Hadoop. We encourage you to learn about the project and contribute your expertise. Here are some starter links:
- See our How to Contribute to HBase page.
- Give us feedback: What can we do better?
- Join the mailing list: Meet the community.
- Come hang with us on IRC.
- Become an HBase Fan up on facebook.
- Or up on twitter, HBase.