HBase: Bigtable-like structured storage for Hadoop HDFS

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase

Just as Google's Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop Core. Data is organized into tables, rows and columns. An Iterator-like interface is available for scanning through a row range (and of course there is the ability to retrieve a column value for a specific key). Any particular column may have multiple versions for the same row key.