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HBase has been gaining a lot of traction since our last post. Hadoop was promoted to a top-level Apache project and Yahoo announced that it has the world’s largest Hadoop production application. HBase is now a full sub-project of Hadoop. Also, other companies like Rapleaf are using HBase in production. After the success of the HBase tech presentation at Rapleaf HQ, Powerset has decided to organize a second Hbase User Group meeting. If you’re using HBase now or evaluating HBase as a data store, join us to network with other database geeks and give suggestions and feedback to the Hbase core development team. The User Group will meet on Tuesday, March 4, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the Powerset HQ. Just register on the event page at Upcoming so we can plan how much food and booze to stock. If you’re interested in HBase or Hadoop and can’t make it to the User Group meeting, there’s a Hadoop Summit at Yahoo on March 25. Powerset will be doing a presentation on HBase and Rapleaf will be showing off their application.