Understanding HBase and BigTable - Jimbojw.com From Jimbojw.com The hardest part about learning HBase (the open source implementation of Google's BigTable), is just wrapping your mind around the concept of what it actually is. I find it rather unfortunate that these two great systems contain the words table and base in their names, which tend to cause confusion among RDBMS indoctrinated individuals (like myself). This article aims to describe these distributed data storage systems from a conceptual standpoint. It's all in the terminology Fortunately, Google's BigTable Paper clearly explains what BigTable actually is. A Bigtable is a sparse, distributed, persistent multidimensional sorted map. Note: At this juncture I like to give readers the opportunity to collect any brain matter which may have left their skulls upon reading that last line. The BigTable paper continues, explaining that: The map is indexed by a row key, column key, and a timestamp; each value in the map is an uninterpreted array of bytes. map persistent distributed sorted
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