Awesome HBase

A curated list of awesome HBase projects and 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

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