HBase BlockCache Showdown
The HBase BlockCache is an important structure for enabling low latency reads. As of HBase 0.96.0, there are no less than three different BlockCache implementations to choose from. But how to know when to use one over the other? There’s ...
HBase Architecture
HBase – The Basics:
HBase is an open-source, NoSQL, distributed, non-relational, versioned, multi-dimensional, column-oriented store which has been modeled after Google BigTable that runs on top of HDFS. ‘’NoSQL” is a broad term meaning that the database isn’t an RDBMS which ...