Introduction
ApsaraDB for HBase is a cost-effective cloud-based intelligent NoSQL database service that is of high scalability and compatible with the open source HBase. This service provides core benefits such as low storage costs, high throughput and scalability, and intelligent data processing. ApsaraDB for HBase supports many core services of Alibaba such as recommendations on Taobao, risk control of Huabei, advertising, data dashboards, logistics tracking of Cainiao, transaction records of Alipay, and messages of the mobile Taobao app. This service provides enterprise-level capabilities such as processing of petabytes (PB) of data and a large number of concurrent requests, quick scaling within seconds, low response latency within milliseconds, full hosting, and global distribution. It also ensures high availability by deploying data centers across regions.
Scenarios
ApsaraDB for HBase provides real-time storage of massive semi-structured and unstructured data. It offers capabilities such as high concurrent throughput, SQL-based lightweight data analysis, and full-text search. With a comprehensive set of tools and extensive ecosystem integration, ApsaraDB for HBase further satisfies enterprises' needs to store, retrieve, and analyze large amounts of data. It is a database suitable for scenarios such as risk control, recommendations, advertising, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Vehicles (IoV), feeds, and data dashboards.
Typical scenario | Storage type | Storage object | Engine API | Benefits |
Social interaction distribution or chat records | KV | Key and Value fields | HBase API | Low latency and high concurrency |
Upgrades of traditional relational databases | SQL | Relational model | SQL | Large storage capacity and distributed SQL database |
Risk control or user profiling | Tablestore | Sparse table | HBase API | Dynamic schema and large storage capacity |
News | Document storage | JSON, XML, or HTML | HBase API | Large storage capacity and high concurrency |
Images or videos | Object Storage Service (OSS) | Images and videos | HBase API | Large storage capacity |
Sensors or IoT | Time series data | Continuous temporal data | OpenTSDB or HBase API | Large storage capacity |
IoV or sports apps | Spatio-temporal data | Spatial dimension or spatial trajectory | GeoMesa or HBase API | Large storage capacity and high-performance writes |
Full-text search | Full text | Full text | Solr or HBase API | High throughput |