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Researched Apache HBase but chose Cassandra: Works well, good understanding of GBL and has good database capabilities
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Ranking
7th
out of 16 in NoSQL Databases
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1,546
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3rd
out of 16 in NoSQL Databases
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2,582
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2,099
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5
Average Words per Review
430
Rating
8.4
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Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's BigTable. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, Apache HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS.
A scalable multi-master database with no single points of failure. Scalability & high availability without compromising performance.
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Apache HBase is ranked 7th in NoSQL Databases while Cassandra is ranked 3rd in NoSQL Databases with 5 reviews. Apache HBase is rated 0.0, while Cassandra is rated 8.4. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cassandra writes "Great time series data feature but it requires third parties to join tables". Apache HBase is most compared with Accumulo, Couchbase, Scylla, SingleStore DB and Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, whereas Cassandra is most compared with InfluxDB, Accumulo, Couchbase, Vertica and Oracle NoSQL.

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