HBase, sometimes called “ the Hadoop database,” is a distributed, column-oriented key-value store along the lines of Cassandra.

HBase is a column-oriented database, and so is Cassandra. HBase: A primer Apache HBase is a NoSQL database that runs on top of Hadoop as a distributed and scalable big data store.

Google’s column-oriented key value store BigTable influenced many NoSQL systems such as Apache HBase, Cassandra and HyperTable. And, of course, the Google Map-Reduce algorithm became the foundation ...

The Apache Drill framework aims to provide just such a SQL engine. Drill can operate across multiple distributed data stores such as HDFS or Amazon S3, relational databases that support JDBC or ODBC, ...