20 engineers on Hacker News describe using Apache HBase first-hand: 4 endorse it, 4 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We struggled with most, but we used HBase for a year before we moved to PG/Citus.”
regret · production · 1 yr · doh · 2017-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked on Hadoop and HBase extensively from 2011 - 2013... then we migrated to other Big Data technologies.”
regret · production · 2 yr · samspenc · 2017-03-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use OpenTSDB with HBase with good success. Writing over 2m events/s in some clusters.”
endorse · production · linuxhansl · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's very powerful and flexible, but it's also not like running any other database.”
mixed · production · startuploser · 2016-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I lost about 2h worth of production data with HBase in just the same way... it definitely shattered my trust in that DB”
regret · production · annnnd · 2013-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“"Failover means downtime" about HBase. We run into this pretty much every day in one of our customer facing applications”
regret · production · trun · 2013-08-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have need for a store that scales beyond what even Oracle can provide”
endorse · production · linuxhansl · 2011-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Eventually we settled on HBase because needed consistency over availability and we needed more than just a key value store”
endorse · production · linuxhansl · 2011-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the open source Java libraries we leveraged along the way really helped us get going, things like HBase, Lucence, Bdb”
endorse · production · 2.5 yr · _grrr · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm a committer for Apache HBase, Apache Hive myself and I've been in this space for 13 years now.”
neutral · production · lars_francke · 2021-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a Spark based system that was taking 3+ days to do aggregate processing over HBase-stored data.”
neutral · production · nl · 2020-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At Sematext we replaced our HBase based metrics datastore with Clickhouse.”
neutral · production · avisk · 2020-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use HBase as our primary store and index via map/reduce or Spark Batch.”
neutral · production · KennyCason · 2018-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work at one of the above :) where we run many, many thousand HBase servers.”
neutral · production · linuxhansl · 2016-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run many different types of data services, mysql/hadoop/hbase/kafka/redis/zookeeper/elasticsearch/etc”
neutral · production · paulfurtado · 2016-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Cloudera for HBase, relay all data through the tsdbrelay cmd”
neutral · production · KyleBrandt · 2015-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We did initially use m1.xlarge, a few years ago when we first started with HBase.”
neutral · production · bbeaudreault · 2014-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So a company running HBase and Feedly in production would be of great help.”
neutral · production · tschellenbach · 2013-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“maintaining the large amount of state for durability (we use hbase)”
neutral · production · andma · 2012-03-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I know this because that happened to one of my previous workplaces (we use HBase).”
neutral · production · fiveo · 2010-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?