Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14417.html ">apache HBase 0.96.0 has been released from the 0.94.x version for more than a year, so we recommend that users upgrade to this version." This release fixes more than 2000 problems, while significantly improving stability, operability, and scalability. For more information, see the release notes.
Hbase–hadoop Database is a highly reliable, high-performance, column-oriented, scalable, distributed storage system that leverages HBase technology to build large structured storage clusters on inexpensive PC servers.
HBase is an open-source implementation of Google BigTable, similar to Google BigTable leveraging GFs as its file storage system, hbase using Hadoop HDFs as its file storage system Google runs mapreduce to handle massive amounts of data in BigTable, HBase also uses Hadoop mapreduce to handle massive amounts of data in HBase, and Google BigTable uses chubby as a collaborative service, HBase uses zookeeper as its counterpart.