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HBase is column-oriented database and allows you to select only the required columns or columns family using Scan objects. For a query on ...

The compression in HBase can really reduce the storage requirements, as the row-key, column-family and the column names repeat for each col...

This blog tries to list the differences and synergies of the RCFile format of Hadoop and Column-oriented database (like Cassandra, HBase, ...

Hadoop stores the large amount of data on the distributed cluster using HDFS. Normally its stored in the CSV file format with some delimite...

From my previous blog "How to calculate the record size of HBase?" its easy to calculate the record size of HBase and estimate t...

If you would like to read and process 1 Billion records from HBase, how long it would take? To simplify the scenario the following example ...

HBase stores the data in the table lexicographically sorted by their row key. In a large cluster of HBase having many shards aka Regions, ...