Currently GeoWave supports only Accumulo as the DataStore. Hbase, similar to Accumulo is an open-source, scalable, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's Bigtable paper. It makes use of the distributed data-storage provided by Hadoop and HDFS. Though based on same paper, Accumulo and Hbase have some common features and quite a few differences also. Hence we need to add support for Hbase in GeoWave and the user should be given an option to choose between Accumulo and Hbase depending on his/her use-case. This will ensure that users of GeoWave can make use of the best of both the worlds.