Tag: Apache HBase

Many customers have taken advantage of the numerous benefits of running Apache HBase on Amazon S3 for data storage, including lower costs, data durability, and easier scalability. Customers such as FINRA have lowered their costs by 60% by moving to an HBase on S3 architecture along with the numerous operational benefits that come with decoupling […]

Starting with Amazon EMR 5.2.0, you have the option to run Apache HBase on Amazon S3. Running HBase on S3 gives you several added benefits, including lower costs, data durability, and easier scalability. HBase provides several options that you can use to migrate and back up HBase tables. The steps to migrate to HBase on […]

John Hitchingham is Director of Performance Engineering at FINRA The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is a private sector regulator responsible for analyzing 99% of the equities and 65% of the option activity in the US. In order to look for fraud, market manipulation, insider trading, and abuse, FINRA’s technology group has developed a robust […]

With today’s launch of Amazon EMR release 4.7, you can now create clusters with Apache Phoenix 4.7.0 for low-latency SQL and OLTP workloads. Phoenix uses Apache HBase as its backing store (HBase 1.2.1 is included on Amazon EMR release 4.7.0), using HBase scan operations and coprocessors for fast performance. Additionally, you can map Phoenix tables […]