Known Use Cases

OpenTSDB

• • The Scalable Time Series Database runs on the top of HBase used for storing massive amount of time series data

• StumbleUpon

  • Uses HBase to make the best recommendations, since it has to manage a lot of user signals. Every thumb-up, stumble, and share (among other feedback from users) is stored.

• Mozilla

  • For managing crash reports etc.

• Adobe

  • Using HBase in several areas from social services to structured data and processing for internal use.

• Explorys

  uses an HBase cluster containing over a billion anonymized clinical records, to enable subscribers to search and analyse patient populations, treatment protocols, and clinical outcomes.

• Facebook

  uses HBase to power their Messages infrastructure.

• Openlogic

  stores all the world ’s Open Source packages, versions, and analytical purposes. files, and lines of code in HBase for both near-real-time access

• Openplaces

  is a search engine for travel that uses HBase to store terabytes of web pages and travel-related entity records.

• Powerset (a Microsoft company)

  uses HBase to store raw documents. - Shopping Engine at Tokenizer is a web crawler; it uses HBase to store URLs and Outlinks (more than a billion).

• Tracker

  uses HBase to store and serve online influencer data in real—time. They use MapReduce to frequently re-score their entire data set as they keep updating inf luencer metrics on a daily basis.

• Twitter

  runs HBase across its entire Hadoop cluster. HBase provides a distributed, read/write backup of all mysql tables in Twitter's production backend, allowing engineers to run MapReduce jobs over the data while maintaining the ability to apply periodic row updates

• WorldLingo

  • The WorldLingo Multilingual Archive use HBase to store millions of documents that they scan using Map/Reduce jobs to machine translate them into all or selected target languages from their set of available machine translation languages.