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Hbase Essentials

You're reading from   Hbase Essentials A practical guide to realizing the seamless potential of storing and managing high-volume, high-velocity data quickly and painlessly with HBase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783987245
Length 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chapter 1. Introducing HBase

A relational database management system (RDBMS) is the right choice for most of the online transactional processing (OLTP) applications, and it also supports most of the online analytical processing (OLAP) systems. Large OLAP systems usually run very large queries that scan a wide set of records or an entire dataset containing billions of records (terabytes or petabytes in size) and face scaling issues. To address scaling issues using RDBMS, a huge investment becomes another point of concern.

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