HBase is an open source project, nothing about it is private. It is strongly inspired by Bigtable, have you read the paper? http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html
Have you also taken a look at the book on the website? This section in particular should be helpful: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#architecture J-D 2011/8/26 周健雯 <[email protected]>: > Hi, Dr. All > > My name is Jianwen Zhou, a Master student from Fudan University. I am > studying HBase-0.90.1 source code but could not quite understand it. I wonder > if I could have some design documents from you. If I am honored enough to > have one, I promise that it's just for personal academic purpose and will > keep it private, never disclosing it. > > Looking forward to your reply. Thank you very much. > > > --------------- > Yours sincerely > > Jianwen, Zhou > > Fudan University > > School of Computer Science and Technology > > > >
