diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml index 43f6ab58861..966c621386f 100644 --- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml +++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml @@ -23,14 +23,14 @@
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HBase is the Hadoop database. Think of it as a super-fast reliable Big Data store. +

HBase is the Hadoop database. Think of it as a distributed scalable Big Data store.

Use HBase when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware. -HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured by Chang et al. +HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured 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 and HDFS.

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HBase provides: