wancy/hbase repository overview

Apache HBase [1] is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data by Chang et al.[2] Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Apache Hadoop [3].

To get started using HBase, the full documentation for this release can be found under the doc/ directory that accompanies this README. Using a browser, open the docs/index.html to view the project home page (or browse to [1]). The hbase 'book' at http://hbase.apache.org/book.html⁠ has a 'quick start' section and is where you should being your exploration of the hbase project.

The latest HBase can be downloaded from an Apache Mirror [4].

The source code can be found at [5]

The HBase issue tracker is at [6]

Apache HBase is made available under the Apache License, version 2.0 [7]

The HBase mailing lists and archives are listed here [8].

The HBase distribution includes cryptographic software. See the export control notice here [9].

1. http://hbase.apache.org⁠
2. http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html⁠
3. http://hadoop.apache.org⁠
4. http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/⁠
5. https://hbase.apache.org/source-repository.html⁠
6. https://hbase.apache.org/issue-tracking.html⁠
7. http://hbase.apache.org/license.html⁠
8. http://hbase.apache.org/mail-lists.html⁠
9. https://hbase.apache.org/export_control.html⁠