Everything about Everyone, in one random access table

HBASE - Sumit Khanna pointed out this element of the data processing space. I like to think about it as enabling one big table, big enough for every fact about everyone who ever lived.

HBase is the Hadoop database. Use it when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data.

HBase ia 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