Answer (1 of 4): I agree with Joydeep, HBase is not ideal when dealing with arbitrarily large cells (aka. column values). I am looking into this as a side project I am working on, I used the name "hblobstore" out of lack of finding a more appealing one. I am using HBase to store a few things, on...
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