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[Hadoop Wiki] Trivial Update of "Hbase/DesignOverview" by EvgenyRyabitskiy

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  = Table of Contents =
  
   * [#intro Introduction]
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  This paper is HBase oriented analogue of Google [http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html Bigtable paper]. This paper will be self-sufficient. 
  
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- HBase is an [http://apache.org/ Apache] open source project whose goal is to provide Bigtable-like storage for the Hadoop Distributed Computing Environment. HBase leverages the distributed data storage provided by the [http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/hdfs_design.html Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)].
+ HBase is an [http://apache.org/ Apache] open source project whose goal is to provide Bigtable-like storage for the Hadoop Distributed Computing Environment. HBase leverages the distributed data storage provided by the [http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/hdfs_design.html Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)] and use [http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperOver.html ZooKeeper] for coordination between HBase nodes.
  
  Data is logically organized into tables, rows and columns.  An iterator-like interface is available for scanning through a row range and, of course, there is the ability to retrieve a column value for a specific row key. Any particular column may have multiple versions for the same row key.