Apache HBase

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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