DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > HBase

HBase System Properties

Please select another system to compare it with HBase.

Our visitors often compare HBase with Cassandra, Google Cloud Bigtable and Hive.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameHBase
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score35.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitehbase.apache.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2008
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
HBase
DB-Engines blog posts

Cloudera's HBase PaaS offering now supports Complex Transactions
11 August 2021,  Krishna Maheshwari (sponsor) 

Why is Hadoop not listed in the DB-Engines Ranking?
13 May 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

What Is HBase? (Definition, Uses, Benefits, Features)
22 December 2022, Built In

Microsoft Patches Critical XSS Flaws in Azure HDInsight Analytics ...
18 September 2023, Petri.com

Key-Value Stores Market Share, Size, Financial Summaries Analysis ...
21 September 2023, Digital Journal

Hbase分布式集群部署_夜夜流光相皎洁_小宁的博客
21 September 2023, CSDN

hbase 2.5.5 新版本shell 无法使用_编程语言
26 August 2023, CSDN

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Staff Software Backend Engineer - Remote
Clari, Seattle, WA

Technical Instructor
Snowflake, Illinois

Business Intelligence Analyst
Talent Systems, New York, NY

Performance Benchmarking Engineer
Ventana Micro Systems, Cupertino, CA

Engineer, Big Data - Healthcare Overpayment/SQL - Remote
Molina Healthcare, Long Beach, CA

jobs by Indeed



Share this page

Featured Products

MariaDB logo

SkySQL, the ultimate
MariaDB cloud, is here.

Get started with SkySQL today!

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Redis logo

The world’s most loved real‑time data platform.
Try free

SingleStore logo

Database for your real-time AI and Analytics Apps.
Try it today.

Present your product here