Apache HBase [1] is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-orientedstore modeled after Google' Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System forStructured Data by Chang et al.[2]  Just as Bigtable leverages the distributeddata storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-likecapabilities on top of Apache Hadoop [3].To get started using HBase, the full documentation for this release can befound under the doc/ directory that accompanies this README.  Using a browser,open the docs/index.html to view the project home page (or browse to [1]).The hbase 'book' athttp://hbase.apache.org/book.html has a 'quick start'section and is where you should being your exploration of the hbase project.The latest HBase can be downloaded from an Apache Mirror [4].The source code can be found at [5]The HBase issue tracker is at [6]Apache HBase is made available under the Apache License, version 2.0 [7]The HBase mailing lists and archives are listed here [8].The HBase distribution includes cryptographic software. See the export controlnotice here [9].1.http://hbase.apache.org2.http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html3.http://hadoop.apache.org4.http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/5.https://hbase.apache.org/source-repository.html6.https://hbase.apache.org/issue-tracking.html7.http://hbase.apache.org/license.html8.http://hbase.apache.org/mail-lists.html9.https://hbase.apache.org/export_control.html