Monthly Archives: March 2008

Matching Impedance: When to use HBase

By Bryan Duxbury | Published: March 11, 2008

(For the duration of this discussion, I’m going to assume you have at least heard of HBase. If not, go check it out first or you might be a little confused.) Ever since I read the original Bigtable paper, I knew that its design was something that would befuddle a lot of developers. As an [...]

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Thoughts on HBase Users’ Group

By Bryan Duxbury | Published: March 5, 2008

Chris Kline and I visited Powerset for the second HBase Users’ Group meeting. About 20 people attended – the perfect number for small breakout discussions. Michael Stack led off with an overview of the latest HBase news – Hadoop‘s move to a top level Apache project and the subsequent HBase subproject promotion, the state of [...]

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