Pinterest deprecated HBase due to high maintenance costs, lack of experts, and limited product functionalities despite its initial success and performance.
The decision to move away from HBase was made after a thorough evaluation and extensive feedback gathering from relevant stakeholders.
The deprecation was mainly due to high maintenance costs, reliability risks, historical tech debt, and being five years behind the upstream version, making upgrades challenging.
Authors highlighted HBase's missing functionalities and challenges in the upgrade process due to a legacy build/deploy/provisioning pipeline and compatibility issues.
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