Hibari is a strongly consistent, highly available, distributed, key-value Big Data store. (NoSQL database) It was developed by , 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.