The document provides an overview of the state of the Apache HBase database project. It discusses the project goals of availability, stability, and scalability. It also summarizes the mature codebase, active development areas like region replicas and ProcedureV2, and the growing ecosystem of SQL interfaces and other Hadoop components integrated with HBase. Recent releases include 1.1.2 which improved scanners and introduced quotas and throttling, and the 1.0 release which adopted semantic versioning and added region replicas.