How popular is HBase?

HBase is very popular NoSQL Database on the top of Hadoop's HDFS. Hadoop uses its HDFS for management of data over cluster of nodes. Hadoop does not provides random access of data.

HBase works on the top of Hadoop's hdfs and add random access layer as NoSQL Database. It can handle unlimited data set. HBase is very popular as NoSQL database.

HBase is very popular although its popularity graph is less then MongoDB. Here is one of the comparison graph:

Developers are using HBase for managing Big Data environment.

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