In this section, we will list out use cases of HBase being used in the industry today. References and more details can be found at links provided in the Useful links and references section at the end of the chapter.
Facebook, as you all know, is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study, and live around them. Facebook uses HBase mainly to power their messages infrastructure. The following are the services where Facebook uses HBase:
Messages between users
Chats
E-mails
SMS