On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:34 AM, HHB <hubaghd...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> >> What are the advantages/disadvantages of Cassandra over HBase? >> > > Ease of setup: all nodes are the same. > > No single point of failure: all nodes are the same. > > Speed: http://www.brianfrankcooper.net/pubs/ycsb-v4.pdf > > Richer model: supercolumns. > I think that there are people that would be of a different opinion here. Cassandra has as I've understood it table:key:name:val and in cases the val is a serialized data structure. In HBase you have table:row:family:key:val:version, which some people might consider richer. > > Multi-datacenter awareness. > > There are likely other things I'm forgetting, but those stand out for me. > > -Brandon > -- Regards Erik
