HBase is coming up on twenty years old. In 2008, scaling was really hard. And the senior engineers at that point had been badly burned by trying to scale durin

HBase is coming up on twenty years old. In 2008, scaling was really hard. And the senior engineers at that point had been badly burned by trying to scale during the 2000-2005 period. The comment about servers of the time being less powerful than smart phones of today is spot on.