Preface

Apache HBase is an open source distributed, Big Data store that scales to billions of rows and columns. HBase sits on top of clusters of commodity machines.

This book is here to help you get familiar with HBase and use it to solve your challenges related to storing a large amount of data. It is aimed at getting you started with programming with HBase so that you will have a solid foundation to build on about the different types of advanced features and usages.