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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