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-HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' <a hef="http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html">Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured</a> by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop.
+HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' <a href="http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html">Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured</a> by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop.
 HBase includes:
 <ul>
     <li>Convenient base classes for backing Hadoop MapReduce jobs with HBase tables including cascading, hive and pig source and sink modules