--- title: Hbase Reviews meta\_title: 'Hbase Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 114 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Hbase works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 114 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # Hbase Reviews & Product Details 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. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Hbase Community](https://www.g2.com/products/hbase/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/hbase/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Snowflake](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snowflake") Snowflake 4.6/5(764) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud BigTable](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud BigTable") Google Cloud BigTable 4.4/5(41) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigtable/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud BigQuery](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud BigQuery") Google Cloud BigQuery 4.5/5(1,224) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/hbase/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 114 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![prateek k.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "prateek k.") PK prateek k. Senior Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/11/2023 "Fast Search, Fault tolerant and scalable" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Hbase? Faster lookup of records using the row keys. It helped to fetch thousands of documents in a much faster way using the row keys As it is a columnar data store, it helped us to improve the query performance and aggregations Sharding helps us to optimise data storage and retrieval. HBase provides automatic or manual sharding of tables. The dynamic addition of columns and column families helped us efficiently modify the schema. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? It cannot have multiple indexes as the row key is the only column which could be indexed. HBase does not support partial row keys, which limits its query performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using HBase for scalable extensive data storage systems and to process them, transforming them efficiently. Using it to process billions of records in lesser amount of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/20/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite GS GouriS S. Data Scientist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/5/2021 "Apache Hbase for processing billion of records" 4/5 What do you like best about Hbase? The best thing about Apache Hbase is it is capable to process billion of records available in hbase tables and provides fast processing of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? The thing which I don't like in apache Hbase is it doesn't support joins of tables like other rdbms databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? I am using HBase for processing large amount of data stored in Hdfs and it provides consistency in processing flow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MM Maike M. Server and Storage Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/26/2021 "Distributed database" 4/5 What do you like best about Hbase? Structured data storage for large tables. Add extra services for analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? Lots of cloud space and external server capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? Store and generate database for high performance, data control and user registration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![surya p.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "surya p.") SP surya p. Module Lead Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/27/2021 "Apache Hbase review" 5/5 What do you like best about Hbase? Easy for setting up and starting to experiment. That's the best part Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? Commands are bit tricky as we need to use suitable java classes for applying operations like filtering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Hbase: Make sure that you use it for right use case to avoid future troubles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? We maintain various dimension data of our business process in Hbase system. We store fact information in Hadoop file system. So we combine both these information to make business decisions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shubham B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shubham B.") SB Shubham B. Senior Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/7/2021 "Database with good storage and integration" 5/5 What do you like best about Hbase? Hbase is columnar based approach of storing data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? Other database come in cloud with better understanding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Hbase: Use it wisely with understand it is quite useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? Can store more data and retrieval is fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Oil & Energy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Oil & Energy") CO Verified User in Oil & Energy Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/14/2021 "I am a bigdata platform architect, working for multiple clients project implementation, migration" 4/5 What do you like best about Hbase? Hbase data and metadata management within large deployment cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? While doing API integration for data accessing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Hbase: It depends on the business use case. If fit, then the architect can recommend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? I worked for an IOT based project where the client would capture the accurate data, which comes from multiple devices at very high velocity. I love HBase data loading speed and read the data form tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mukul C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mukul C.") MC Mukul C. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/16/2021 "Very good database for modern apps" 4/5 What do you like best about Hbase? Speed of transactions is one of the best among all dbs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? Configuration of database taking more time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? Real time data analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") CF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/5/2021 "We have used HBase for storing our real time data related to transaction." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Hbase? It's feature of keeping the versions of the records and its storage structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? Difficult to maintain. It should come as managed service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? We were required to get the latest transaction. With the help of HBase features, we were able to do that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/4/2021 "Apache products have always been useful." 4/5 What do you like best about Hbase? That it is an open-source non-relational distributed database. Very handy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? Hbase is indexed and sorted only on key. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? It can handle very large amount of data and also fault tolerance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mohit G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohit G.") MG Mohit G. software Engineering analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/15/2020 "Great so far, highly recommended." 5/5 What do you like best about Hbase? The most helpful thing is that it eases out the work you do. The upsides of using hbase is the user friendliness that it provides. This technology is gaining a lot of importance these days. Other helpful features are a variety of commands that it provides. Apart from that you would explore a lot of upsides when you actually start working on this great and helpful technology.Since hbase is a no sql database so the users dealing with massive data or big data will find it really helpful to work with hbase. This technology is a great upside in this field and certainly gonna be a leader on upcoming days. When you are dealing with a huge velocity and volume of data this technology comes out to be a saviour. I highly recommend use of hbase instead of conventional technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Hbase? The least helpful about hbase I think is the lack of some common features that are available with similar technologies available in the market. The downsides of hbase hence could be improved. For a technology to become popular the least helpful needs to be ommited out and the downsides could be removed. Technologically I found out that when only one Hmaster is used, there could be a possibility of failure. Since joins are handled in MapR layer. Since a traditional RDBMS is index on multiple columns Hbase is only index on a key. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Hbase: For those looking at hbase, First of all you should have a prior knowledge of the traditional rdms systems then only you would be able to make the best out of it. These big data systems are really helpful and gaining a lot of popularity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Hbase solving and how is that benefiting you? Hbase has impacted by work significantly in the past 2-3 years. The use of hbase has made me deal with the unstructured data in a much more convenient way than I used to struggle with other technologies. For a technology to make a huge impact it should be usef friendly enough and hbase has left no stone unturned except a few :). Hbase is a one stop solution for dealing with data problems. So you name a data problem and hbase has a solution. It has significantly impacted users across the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Hbase? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Hbase ](https://www.g2.com/products/hbase/discussions/new) GU Guest User What do you recommend for organizations considering Hbase for their database management needs? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-do-you-recommend-for-organizations-considering-hbase-for-their-database-management-needs) ![Shashank S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shashank S.") SS Shashank Sah • Last activity over 6 years ago 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. 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