Hbase

What do you like best?

The most helpful thing is that it eases out the work you do. The upsides of using hbase is the user friendliness that it provides. This technology is gaining a lot of importance these days.

Other helpful features are a variety of commands that it provides. Apart from that you would explore a lot of upsides when you actually start working on this great and helpful technology.Since hbase is a no sql database so the users dealing with massive data or big data will find it really helpful to work with hbase. This technology is a great upside in this field and certainly gonna be a leader on upcoming days. When you are dealing with a huge velocity and volume of data this technology comes out to be a saviour. I highly recommend use of hbase instead of conventional technologies.

What do you dislike?

The least helpful about hbase I think is the lack of some common features that are available with similar technologies available in the market. The downsides of hbase hence could be improved. For a technology to become popular the least helpful needs to be ommited out and the downsides could be removed. Technologically I found out that when only one Hmaster is used, there could be a possibility of failure. Since joins are handled in MapR layer. Since a traditional RDBMS is index on multiple columns Hbase is only index on a key.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

For those looking at hbase, First of all you should have a prior knowledge of the traditional rdms systems then only you would be able to make the best out of it. These big data systems are really helpful and gaining a lot of popularity.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Hbase has impacted by work significantly in the past 2-3 years. The use of hbase has made me deal with the unstructured data in a much more convenient way than I used to struggle with other technologies. For a technology to make a huge impact it should be usef friendly enough and hbase has left no stone unturned except a few :). Hbase is a one stop solution for dealing with data problems. So you name a data problem and hbase has a solution. It has significantly impacted users across the world.