Question

Point out the correct statement.

(a) HDFS provides low latency access to single rows from billions of records (Random access)

(b) HBase sits on top of the Hadoop File System and provides read and write access

(c) HBase is a distributed file system suitable for storing large files

(d) None of the mentioned

The question was posed to me during an interview.

The question is from Introduction to HBase topic in chapter Hive and HBase of Hadoop

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) HBase sits on top of the Hadoop File System and provides read and write access

The best explanation: One can store the data in HDFS either directly or through HBase. Data consumer reads/accesses the data in HDFS randomly using HBase.