Introduction It is likely one can run into issues using HBase as datastore for Nutch, especially with a commodity hardware that has very limited memory. This article follows up two posts: Build Nutch 2.0 Exploring Nutch 2.0 HBase Storage which explain how to setup Nutch 2.0 with HBase. Memory Issue In my case, HBase is running in an environment that consists of a laptop that only has 1 GB of memor