HBase is a column-oriented database, and so is Cassandra. HBase: A primer Apache HBase is a NoSQL database that runs on top of Hadoop as a distributed and scalable big data store.

Google's column-oriented key value store BigTable influenced many NoSQL systems such as Apache HBase, Cassandra and HyperTable. And, of course, the Google Map-Reduce algorithm became the foundation ...

Wide column store databases allow you to manage data that just won’t fit on one computer. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...