apache/hbase
Apache HBase observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 84
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 83
- age_days: 4485
- days_rel: 28
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 10
Adoption not part of the score
5552 stars · 3400 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented NoSQL database modeled after Google Bigtable, running on top of Apache Hadoop and HDFS. It provides random, real-time read/write access to billions of rows and millions of columns with strong consistency, automatic sharding, and failover.
Use cases
- store billions of rows with random real-time read/write access
- ingest high-volume time-series and metrics data
- store IoT device telemetry at scale
- serve low-latency user profiles and counters for ad tech
- store immutable message and audit logs with efficient range scans
- run large sparse columnar datasets for genomics research
When to choose
- you need linearly scalable, strongly consistent random access on commodity clusters
- your workload is high-ingest, append-mostly like time-series or logs
- you already run Hadoop/HDFS and want Bigtable-like storage
- you need sparse wide tables with millions of columns
When to avoid
- you need ad-hoc SQL, joins, or relational constraints
- your dataset fits comfortably in a single relational database
- you lack operational capacity to run a distributed cluster with ZooKeeper
- you need simple document storage without schema design effort
Facets
service · maturity stable
database search-engine monitoring tracing databases big-data microservices analytics jvm cloud self-hosted nosql column-oriented bigtable hadoop wide-column-store time-series hdfs real-time-read-write data-engineering linux docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/apache/hbase · fetched 2026-08-28 · 8fbbd59d5623
- homepage: https://hbase.apache.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6e26a69c89df
- site_page: https://hbase.apache.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · b90eb51510b5
- site_page: https://hbase.apache.org/docs/other-info · fetched 2026-08-29 · 96f6c3d9fed1
- site_page: https://hbase.apache.org/docs/architecture/bulk-loading · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8fffd5f2b817
- site_page: https://hbase.apache.org/docs/operational-management/metrics-and-monitoring · fetched 2026-08-29 · 32aff53168e6
- site_page: https://hbase.apache.org/1.4/apidocs/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 41c433270480
- site_page: https://hbase.apache.org/1.4/devapidocs/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 41c433270480
- site_page: https://hbase.apache.org/2.3/apidocs/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 123f1c26a852
- site_page: https://hbase.apache.org/2.3/testapidocs/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · edd6d24440c3
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| apache/hbase | main | 94 |
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