The hallmarks of HBase are extreme scalability, high reliability, and the schema flexibility you get from a column-oriented database.

Google’s column-oriented key value store BigTable influenced many NoSQL systems such as Apache HBase, Cassandra and HyperTable. And, of course, the Google Map-Reduce algorithm became the foundation ...

HBase is a column-oriented database, and so is Cassandra. HBase: A primer Apache HBase is a NoSQL database that runs on top of Hadoop as a distributed and scalable big data store.

Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a 'NoSQL' database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...