In our last two blogs, we talked about the HDFS Cluster & Zookeeper Cluster. Which is needed for deploying OpenTSDB in clustered mode. Continuing to the series, In this blog, we are going to talk about HBase which will be used by OpenTSDB in the cluster to store data.
HBase is a column-oriented NoSQL database management system that runs on top of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).