The Multiple Uses of HBase

HBase has been deployed in production to solve often very different problems at companies such as StumbleUpon, Mozilla, Facebook, and Twitter. It helps scaling web applications, it stores insanely high amounts of historical data, it’s used as source or sink of analytical jobs, it keeps track of millions of counters, and so on. This presentation aims at helping people interested in HBase and current users understanding how it can be adapted to their own use case by analyzing the current deployments and their characteristics.