What is "hibari"

Hibari can refer to:

• Hibari Misora, a Japanese singer
• Hibari (database), a NoSQL database
• Studio Hibari, a Japanese animation studio
• Hibari Station, a Japanese railway station
• Stop!! Hibari-kun!, a manga series by Hisashi Eguchi
• Kyoya Hibari, a fictional character from the manga Reborn!

Hibari is a strongly consistent, highly available, distributed, key-value Big Data store. ( NoSQL database) It was developed by Cloudian, Inc., formerly Gemini Mobile Technologies to support its mobile messaging and email services and released as open source on July 27, 2010.

Hibari, a Japanese name meaning "Cloud Bird", can be used in cloud computing with services—such as social networking—requiring the daily storage of potentially terabytes or petabytes of new data.