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A curated list of awesome HBase projects and resources.

HBase is a distributed, scalable, big data store.

Projects

Clients

  • asynchbase - Fully asynchronous, non-blocking HBase client.
  • gohbase - Pure Go client for HBase.
  • happybase - Python client for HBase.

Cloud

  • Amazon EMR - Amazon's Hadoop/HBase offering on AWS.
  • Azure HDInsight - Microsoft's Hadoop/HBase offering on Azure.
  • Cloudera Director - Run Hadoop/HBase clusters on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
  • Google Cloud Bigtable - High-performance NoSQL database service accessible via HBase client API.
  • Hortonworks Cloudbreak - Provision Hadoop/HBase clusters on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OpenStack.

Frameworks

Datasets

  • Kite - High-level data layer for Hadoop/HBase.

Document

  • HDocDB - HBase as a JSON document database.

Entity/JPA

  • DataNucleus - JPA persistence layer with support for HBase.
  • Gora - Persistence library for big data with support for HBase.
  • HBase ORM - A production-grade HBase ORM library.
  • HEntityDB - HBase as an entity database.
  • Kundera - JPA client with support for HBase.

Geospatial

  • GeoMesa - Spatial-temporal database with support for Accumulo, HBase, Cassandra, and Kafka.

Graph

  • Gradoop - Research framework for scalable graph analytics built on Flink and HBase.
  • HGraphDB - HBase as a TinkerPop graph database.
  • HugeGraph - A graph database that supports more than 10+ billion data, high performance and scalability.
  • JanusGraph - Scalable graph database with support for Cassandra, HBase, Google Cloud Bigtable, and BerkeleyDB.
  • NebulaGraph - A high performance distributed Graph database.
  • S2Graph - High-performance distributed graph database built on HBase.
  • Actionbase - A database for user interactions (likes, views, follows) represented as graphs, with precomputed reads served in real-time.

SQL/OLAP

  • AntsDB - AntsDB is a low latency, high concurrency, MySQL compliant SQL layer for HBase.
  • EsgynDB - Commercial SQL engine providing ACID transactions and BI analytics on top of Hadoop, based on Trafodian.
  • Kylin - Extreme OLAP engine for big data that stores data in HBase.
  • LeanXScale - Commercial full ACID full SQL product built on Hadoop/HBase.
  • Phoenix - SQL layer on top of HBase.
  • Splice Machine - Commercial RDBMS built on top of HBase.
  • Trafodian - Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop/HBase.

Time Series

  • Axibase - Distributed time series database built on HBase.
  • OpenTSDB - Scalable time series database built on HBase.
  • Warp 10 - Time series database for sensor data.

Infrastructure

Secondary Indices

  • hindex - Secondary index for HBase.
  • Lily HBase Indexer - Quickly and easily search for content stored in HBase.

Transactions

  • Haeinsa - Multi-row/multi-table transaction library for HBase.
  • HBase-QoD - Vector-field consistency for HBase fine-grained transactional inter-DC replication.
  • Omid - Transactional support for HBase.
  • Tephra - Globally consistent transactions on top of HBase.
  • Themis - Cross-row/cross-table transactions on HBase based on Google's Percolator.

Integrations

  • Apex - Apex-HBase connector.
  • Beam - Beam HBase integration.
  • Camel - Camel HBase component.
  • Cascading - HBase adapters for Cascading.
  • Cascalog - Wrapper around Cascading.HBase for use in Cascalog.
  • Crunch - HBase adapters for Crunch.
  • Drill - HBase storage plugin for Drill.
  • Elasticsearch - Elasticsearch import river for HBase.
  • Flink - Flink-HBase connector.
  • Gearpump - Gearpump integration for HBase.
  • Giraph - Giraph input and output formats for HBase.
  • HAWQ - HAWQ PXF external tables on HBase.
  • Hive - Hive HBase integration.
  • Impala - Impala support for querying HBase tables.
  • Kafka - HBase Kafka proxy.
  • Pig - Pig HBase integration.
  • Presto - Presto-HBase connector.
  • Pulsar - HBase connector for Pulsar.
  • Ranger - HBase plugin for Apache Ranger.
  • Spark - Spark-HBase connector.
  • Spring for Apache Hadoop - Spring-Hadoop integration, including HBase support.
  • Storm - Storm/Trident integration for HBase.
  • Tajo - Tajo integration with HBase.
  • Zeppelin - HBase shell interpreter for Apache Zeppelin.

Tools

  • Ambari - Software for provisioning, managing, and monitor Hadoop/HBase clusters.
  • Cloudera Manager - Tool for managing Hadoop/HBase in production.
  • DbSchema - Diagram-oriented database designer with support for HBase.
  • Hannibal - Tool to monitor and maintain HBase clusters.
  • h-rider - GUI for viewing and manipulating data in HBase.
  • Hue - Smart analytics workbench that includes an HBase browser.
  • Sematext SPM - Tool for monitoring HBase, HDFS, etc.

Miscellaneous

  • HubSpot HBase support - Configs and tools for HBase at HubSpot, including Hystrix integration and coprocessors.

Resources

Books

  • HBase in Action - Experience-driven guide that shows you how to use HBase.
  • HBase: The Definitive Guide - Comprehensive guide to HBase.
  • Architecting HBase Applications - Includes HBase principles, cluster guidelines, and in-depth case studies.
  • HBase Administration Cookbook - How to master HBase configuration and administration.
  • HBase Essentials - A practical guide to using HBase.
  • HBase Design Patterns - Successful patterns to develop scalable applications with HBase.
  • Learning HBase - Learn the fundamentals of HBase administration and development.
  • HBase High Performance Cookbook - Exciting projects that teach you how to use HBase.
  • Apache HBase Primer - A compact guide to HBase essentials.
  • Pro Apache Phoenix - Basic and best practices for using Phoenix.
  • Mathematics of Big Data - The mathematical theory behind wide-column stores such as HBase.

Papers

  • Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data - The inspiration for HBase.
  • Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook - How Facebook deployed HBase to production.

Community

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