diff --git a/bin/ycsb b/bin/ycsb
index 3f32ea9ad8404691c246c387250d0f2be8aeeafa..1f83648617149c9cf774d17df8a795fd5f5406e9 100755
--- a/bin/ycsb
+++ b/bin/ycsb
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ DATABASES = {
     "elasticsearch": "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.ElasticSearchClient",
     "gemfire"      : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.GemFireClient",
     "hbase"        : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.HBaseClient",
-    "hbase-10"     : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.HBaseClient10",
+    "hbase1"       : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.HBaseClient10",
     "hypertable"   : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.HypertableClient",
     "infinispan-cs": "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.InfinispanRemoteClient",
     "infinispan"   : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.InfinispanClient",
diff --git a/distribution/pom.xml b/distribution/pom.xml
index 2dd32d0cdccee8617716807ceeb7aae2aa8d91b0..66675125b792c84202871d05ff27fa3bbebaf4da 100644
--- a/distribution/pom.xml
+++ b/distribution/pom.xml
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ LICENSE file.
       <artifactId>hbase-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase1-binding</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hypertable-binding</artifactId>
diff --git a/hbase/README.md b/hbase/README.md
index 7316c6206e9bcef5801efaf113a32d15f6cfa912..9bc01c4c0364f270942d38cde78647a859949b94 100644
--- a/hbase/README.md
+++ b/hbase/README.md
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
-# HBase Driver for YCSB
-This driver is a binding for the YCSB facilities to operate against a HBase Server cluster.
+# HBase (0.9x) Driver for YCSB
+This driver is a binding for the YCSB facilities to operate against a HBase 0.9x Server cluster.
+To run against an HBase >= 1.0 cluster, use the `hbase1` binding.
 
 ## Quickstart
 
@@ -68,6 +69,4 @@ bin/ycsb run hbase -P workloads/workloada -cp /HBASE-HOME-DIR/conf -p table=user
 Following options can be configurable using `-p`.
 
 * `columnfamily`: The HBase column family to target.
-* `clientbuffering` : If true, buffer mutations on the client. The default is false.
-* `writebuffersize` : Buffer size to be used when `clientbuffering` is activated. The default is 12MB.
 * `debug` : If true, debugging logs are activated. The default is false.
diff --git a/hbase/pom.xml b/hbase/pom.xml
index a5241798a5573ba8488d554d03c44e6b5a9e6284..1d42f71bf3618d714ca91d827e6e3c20436d6738 100644
--- a/hbase/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ LICENSE file.
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>hbase-binding</artifactId>
-  <name>HBase DB Binding</name>
+  <name>HBase 0.9x DB Binding</name>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase1/README.md b/hbase1/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d1b8255057e2222f759129b6e6a10abc1d122053
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase1/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+<!--
+Copyright (c) 2015 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
+may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
+may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+implied. See the License for the specific language governing
+permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
+LICENSE file.
+-->
+
+# HBase (1.x) Driver for YCSB
+This driver is a binding for the YCSB facilities to operate against a HBase 1.x Server cluster.
+To run against an HBase 0.9x cluster, use the `hbase` binding.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+### 1. Start a HBase Server
+You need to start a single node or a cluster to point the client at. Please see [Apache HBase Reference Guide](http://hbase.apache.org/book.html) for more details and instructions.
+
+### 2. Set up YCSB
+You need to clone the repository and compile everything.
+
+```
+git clone git://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB.git
+cd YCSB
+mvn clean package
+```
+
+### 3. Create a HBase table for testing
+
+For best results, use the pre-splitting strategy recommended in [HBASE-4163](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4163):
+
+```
+hbase(main):001:0> n_splits = 200 # HBase recommends (10 * number of regionservers)
+hbase(main):002:0> create 'usertable', 'family', {SPLITS => (1..n_splits).map {|i| "user#{1000+i*(9999-1000)/n_splits}"}}
+```
+
+*Failing to do so will cause all writes to initially target a single region server*.
+
+### 4. Run the Workload
+Before you can actually run the workload, you need to "load" the data first.
+
+You should specify a HBase config directory(or any other directory containing your hbase-site.xml) and a table name and a column family(-cp is used to set java classpath and -p is used to set various properties).
+
+```
+bin/ycsb load hbase10 -P workloads/workloada -cp /HBASE-HOME-DIR/conf -p table=usertable -p columnfamily=family
+```
+
+Then, you can run the workload:
+
+```
+bin/ycsb run hbase10 -P workloads/workloada -cp /HBASE-HOME-DIR/conf -p table=usertable -p columnfamily=family
+```
+
+Please see the general instructions in the `doc` folder if you are not sure how it all works. You can apply additional properties (as seen in the next section) like this:
+
+```
+bin/ycsb run hbase10 -P workloads/workloada -cp /HBASE-HOME-DIR/conf -p table=usertable -p columnfamily=family -p clientbuffering=true
+```
+
+## Configuration Options
+Following options can be configurable using `-p`.
+
+* `columnfamily`: The HBase column family to target.
+* `clientbuffering` : If true, buffer mutations on the client. The default is false.
+* `writebuffersize` : Buffer size to be used when `clientbuffering` is activated. The default is 12MB.
+* `debug` : If true, debugging logs are activated. The default is false.
diff --git a/hbase1/pom.xml b/hbase1/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6d5ea1fd2728a75745d8d32f3bc51a975e661457
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase1/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- 
+Copyright (c) 2012 - 2015 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
+may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
+may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+implied. See the License for the specific language governing
+permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
+LICENSE file.
+-->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
+    <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
+    <version>0.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <relativePath>../binding-parent/</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+
+  <artifactId>hbase1-binding</artifactId>
+  <name>HBase 1.0 DB Binding</name>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
+      <version>${hbase1.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
+      <artifactId>core</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/hbase/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/HBaseClient10.java b/hbase1/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/HBaseClient10.java
similarity index 100%
rename from hbase/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/HBaseClient10.java
rename to hbase1/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/HBaseClient10.java
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ed2b9b3fe989f960242d525dabb8bca7bfbeffcf..9e15425f9bd8d3ef72a96c68add0207aaebe4611 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ LICENSE file.
   <properties>
     <maven.assembly.version>2.5.5</maven.assembly.version>
     <maven.dependency.version>2.10</maven.dependency.version>
-    <hbase.version>1.0.0</hbase.version>
+    <hbase.version>0.98.13-hadoop2</hbase.version>
+    <hbase1.version>1.0.0</hbase1.version>
     <accumulo.version>1.6.0</accumulo.version>
     <cassandra.version>1.2.9</cassandra.version>
     <cassandra.cql.version>1.0.3</cassandra.cql.version>
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ LICENSE file.
     <module>elasticsearch</module>
     <module>gemfire</module>
     <module>hbase</module>
+    <module>hbase1</module>
     <module>hypertable</module>
     <module>infinispan</module>
     <module>jdbc</module>