Question - What is HBase?
Answer -
Apache HBase is a distributed, open-source, scalable, and multidimensional database of NoSQL. HBase is based on Java; it runs on HDFS and offers Google-Bigtable-like abilities and functionalities to Hadoop. Moreover, HBase’s fault-tolerant nature helps in storing large volumes of sparse datasets. HBase gets low latency and high throughput by offering faster access to large datasets for read or write functions.