HBase

Persistence: Persisting objects to Column stores such as HBase, Cassandra, Hypertable; key-value stores such as Voldermort, Redis, etc; SQL databases, such as MySQL, HSQLDB, flat files in local file system of Hadoop HDFS.

general@incubator.apache.org Archives 2010

Implementations of Hadoop and other Apache MapReduce projects such as HBase, are officially safe.

Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community mitchp 2010

* Data Persistence: Persisting objects to Column stores such as HBase,

general@incubator.apache.org Archives 2010

(inspired by Google's BigTable) such as HBase and Cassandra.

developerFusion - content 2010

* Data Persistence: Persisting objects to Column stores such as HBase,

general@incubator.apache.org Archives Enis Soztutar <enis.soz.nutch@gmail.com> 2010

I have a presentation posted online for anyone looking for a primer on Hadoop and HBase and how they compare to relational databases.

MapReduce vs. SQL: It’s Not One or the Other 2009

HBase: A scalable, distributed database that supports structured data storage for large tables.

The big promise of Big Data: What you need to know today Frank J. Ohlhorst 2010

For example, most organizations will choose to use HDFS as the primary distributed file system and HBase as a database, which can store billions of rows of data.

The big promise of Big Data: What you need to know today Frank J. Ohlhorst 2010

Hadoop world, HBase will be ever more important as it can facilitate a hybrid approach to real-time and batch MapReduce processing.

3 big data trends for the year ahead - O'Reilly Media - O'Reilly Insights - Forbes 2011

HBase: Hadoop database for random read/write access

CNET News.com 2011