HBase vs Minio: What are the differences?
Developers describe HBase as "The Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, big data store". Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Apache Hadoop. On the other hand, Minio is detailed as "AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go". Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License.
HBase can be classified as a tool in the "Databases" category, while Minio is grouped under "Cloud Storage".
HBase and Minio are both open source tools. Minio with 16.9K GitHub stars and 1.59K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than HBase with 2.91K GitHub stars and 2.01K GitHub forks.
Pinterest, HubSpot, and hike are some of the popular companies that use HBase, whereas Minio is used by AgFlow, codebeat, and Minio. HBase has a broader approval, being mentioned in 54 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to Minio, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
Pros of HBase
- OLTP5