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I thought that this chapter gave a good intro to HBase, emphasizing the similarities and differences with the relational database model. It is also interesting to see various support technologies spread across this book. In the last chapter, JSON and REST, and in this chapter, Thrift and Amazon's Web Services.

The chapter gives a taste of HBase schema design issues, especially the column family tradeoffs and performance considerations, but rightly defers much of this to more complete references.

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I read this chapter probably month and a half ago. I liked the example that demonstrates how columns are used to build something interesting like wikis. I can see it to be used for something like data marts or multidimensional databases. It would be interesting to find out what actually triggered an idea of columns...

I thought this online book would be interesting for other people interested in learning more about Big Data. I didn't read the whole thing, but I thought the presentation is very nice

http://www.hadoopilluminated.com/hado...