Abstract: The explosive growth of internet in recent years led to tremendous increase in volume of data. Today this data is accessed more frequently and data processing needs have increased. Relational databases were not designed to deal with scaling and agility challenges, nor were they built to harness the benefits of high processing power and cheap storage available in recent times. Today in era of cloud computing many companies and organizations are shifting towards an alternative for legacy relational infrastructure used since early 1970s. Apache’s HBase, a NoSQL database is the perfect alternative for relational databases. The purpose of this paper is to identify the benefits of HBase and the motivating factors that drive organizations to choose HBase over relational databases. The paper provides a thorough technical background about traditional SQL databases and their limitations before proceeding to compare them with HBase. Finally it shows performance evaluation of HBase and various issues being addressed that are difficult to deal with if we use the relational model.
Keywords: HBase; NoSQL; Hadoop; Relational Database; Column oriented Database; Cloud storage; RDBMS; Scalability.
Title: Benefits of HBase Over Relational Databases in Context of Scalability, Performance and Agile Development
Author: Mandar Jadhav, Prof. K.K Joshi
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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