Apache HBase Reviews

Name: Apache HBase
Brand: Apache
Rating: 3.3 (3 reviews)

3.3 out of 5

3 reviews
66% willing to recommend

What is Apache HBase?

Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's BigTable. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, Apache HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS.

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Apache HBase is the #11 ranked solution in top NoSQL Databases. PeerSpot users give Apache HBase an average rating of 6.6 out of 10. Apache HBase is most commonly compared to Redis: Apache HBase vs Redis. Apache HBase is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 22% of all views.

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Featured Apache HBase reviews

Ephrem Sisay

DevOps Engineer (M-PESA) at Safaricom Ethiopia plc

Apache HBase could be improved by optimizing the integration with Apache Phoenix; sometimes the abstraction and lookup jobs lead to issues when there are too many requests. Resource optimization isn't always as successful as it should be, which can cause some query and lookup jobs to fail. For instance, during eligibility checks for credit, if there are many requests on the database, it might fail, and after such a failure, it doesn't allow us to run queries from the moment they stop. If there could be optimization to require less resource usage and allow those jobs and queries to pick up from where they stopped, that would be a great addition to the tool.

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Sekhar Reddy B

Principal Software Engineer at Securonix

We use it for real-time data grouping The most valuable part is the column family structure. We mainly use it for real-time aggregations. That's why we prefer it as a NoSQL database. We've seen performance issues when we have more regions. The product needs improvement in that area. So we…

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Atif Tariq

Cloud and Big Data Engineer | Developer at Huawei Cloud Middle East

Apache HBase is a database used for data storage. It's managing our data set as a consumer data set I don't like using Apache HBase to store huge amounts of data because of many performance issues. I have been using Apache HBase for seven years. You cannot deploy Apache HBase without Apache…

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Apache HBase mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of Apache HBase in the NoSQL Databases category stands at 5.6%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Aug 22, 2025

Valuable Features

"The in-memory processing lets us optimize our queries and helps us run concurrent queries and other jobs such as the lookup jobs we always use Apache HBase for."
"The in-memory processing lets us optimize our queries and helps us run concurrent queries and other jobs such as the lookup jobs we always use Apache HBase for."
"The most valuable part is the column family structure."

Room for Improvement

"Apache HBase could be improved by optimizing the integration with Apache Phoenix; sometimes the abstraction and lookup jobs lead to issues when there are too many requests."
"Apache HBase could be improved by optimizing the integration with Apache Phoenix; sometimes the abstraction and lookup jobs lead to issues when there are too many requests."
"We've seen performance issues."

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