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     <title>HBase</title>
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-<a href="http://hbase.org">HBase</a> is the <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop">Hadoop</a> simple database.
+<a href="http://hbase.org">HBase</a> builds on <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/core">Hadoop Core</a>
+to build a scalable, distributed database.
 
 <h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2>
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