Awesome HBase – Massive Collection of Resources

HBase is a distributed, scalable, big data store.

Contents

• Projects
  • Clients
  • Cloud
  • Frameworks
    • Datasets
    • Document
    • Entity/JPA
    • Geospatial
    • Graph
    • SQL/OLAP
    • Time Series
  • Infrastructure
    • Secondary Indices
    • Transactions
  • Integrations
  • Tools
  • Miscellaneous
• Resources
  • Books
  • Papers
  • Community

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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

• Blog
• Mailing Lists
• Reddit
• Stack Overflow
• Twitter