# Hbase Reviews
**Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation  
**Category:** [Wide Column Database Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/wide-column-database)  
**Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 114
## About Hbase
A scalable, distributed database that supports structured data storage for large tables. Use HBase when you need random, realtime read/write access to Big Data.





## Hbase Discussions
  - [In HBase, we cannot implement any cross data operations and joining operations, of course, we can implement the joining operations using MapReduce, which would take a lot of time to designing and development. How we can improve this??](https://www.g2.com/discussions/25674-in-hbase-we-cannot-implement-any-cross-data-operations-and-joining-operations-of-course-we-can-implement-the-joining-operations-using-mapreduce-which-would-take-a-lot-of-time-to-designing-and-development-how-we-can-improve-this) - 1 comment, 1 upvote

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## Hbase Features
**Storage**
- Data Model
- Data Types

**Storage**
- Data Storage Method

**Availability**
- Auto Sharding
- Auto Recovery
- Data Replication

**Scalability**
- Database Scalability
- Auto Sharding

**Performance**
- Integrated Cache

**Security**
- Order Preserving Encryption

**Security**
- Role-Based Authorization
- Authentication
- Audit Logs
- Encryption

**Support**
- Data Types Support
- Different Operating Systems
- Multi model Database Support

**Support**
- Multi-Model
- Operating Systems

**Agentic AI - Wide Column Database**
- Decision Making

**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

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