Tuesday 22 December 2015
HBASE:
¨ HBase is a database: the Hadoop database.Its a column oriented data store.
¨ Initially modeled after google’s big table.
¨ It is distributed and a large scale data store. It is designed to run on a cluster of computers instead of a single computer. The cluster can be built using commodity hardware.
¨ It supports random read and write i.e,you can write data as you like and read it back again as you need it.
¨ Its elastic in nature i.e. it can be scaled horizontally by adding more machines to the cluster. Each node in the cluster provides a bit of storage, a bit of cache, and a bit of computation as well. This makes HBase incredibly flexible and forgiving.
¨ It is built on top of HDFS.
¨ HBase stores structured and semi structured data naturally so you can load it with tweets and parsed log files and a catalog of all your products right along with their customer reviews.
¨ It can store unstructured data too, as long as it’s not too large.
¨ HBase isn’t a relational database like the ones to which you’re likely accustomed.It doesn’t speak SQL or enforce relationships within your data.
HBASE Usage:
¨ Used for random write and random read
¨ When the data to be handled is large
¨ It is good for variable schema
