HydraBase – The evolution of HBase@Facebook - Facebook Engineering
When we revamped Messages in 2010 to integrate SMS, chat, email and Facebook Messages into one inbox, we built the product on open-source Apache HBase, a distributed key value data store running on top of HDFS, and extended it to meet our requirements. At the time, HBase was chosen as the underlying durable data store [...]Read More...
Jun 5, 2014 ... Since then, we've expanded the HBase footprint across Facebook, using it not only for point-read, online transaction processing workloads like ...