This document discusses the use of HBase in a vehicle monitoring system. It describes challenges including handling huge amounts of vehicle data from 100k vehicles generating 2TB of data daily. It outlines decisions around using Java, Kafka, HBase, and microservices. The system architecture is shown storing vehicle data in HBase with data backup. Challenges with HBase like query speed are discussed. Prospects include rewriting components in Go, splitting to microservices, and data analysis.