As the default database for Hadoop, you'd expect HBase to be more popular than it is, but its time may already have passed A few years ago, HBase looked set to become one of the dominant databases in ...

One of the great things about Hadoop is that it’s open source, which allows developers of all stripes to lash their code to the beast and give it a whirl. One of the big data software startups riding ...

Apache HBase describes itself as “the Hadoop database,” which can be a bit confusing, as Hadoop is typically understood to refer to the popular MapReduce processing framework. But Hadoop is really an ...

Facebook announced in a blog post on Thursday that it has upgraded the Apache HBase database with a new open source system called HydraBase. Facebook is an avid HBase shop, using it to store data for ...

Both HBase and Cassandra can deal with large data sets, and provide high transaction rates and low latency lookups. Both allow map-reduce processing to be run against the database when aggregation or ...

WANdisco, a company focused on providing maximum uptime for systems including Hadoop, has acquired a San Francisco database startup called OhmData for $2.1 million. OhmData’s technology, called C5, is ...