README
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google's 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 Apache Hadoop.
Getting Started
To get started using HBase, visit the project home page. The HBase Reference Guide has a 'Quick Start' section and is where you should begin your exploration of the HBase project.
The latest HBase can be downloaded from the download page.
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