HBaseCon 2013: Apache HBase and HDFS - Understanding Filesystem Usage in HBase

In this talk from Hortonworks' Enis Soztutar, Enis takes an HDFS-centric look at the filesystem issues in HBase. He dissects the interface between HBase and HDFS, with a focus on the filesystem services that HBase relies on, durability, crash recovery, and performance characteristics of HBase resulting from using HDFS.