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[appendix]
[[hbase.history]]
== HBase History

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* 2006:  link:http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html[BigTable] paper published by Google.
* 2006 (end of year):  HBase development starts.
* 2008:  HBase becomes Hadoop sub-project.
* 2010:  HBase becomes Apache top-level project.

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