Thanks for the reply. Didn't know that Thrift was for such purpose. Servlet and JSP is totally new to me. I skimmed through the concept on the internet and they look fascinating. I think I am gonna give servlet and JSP a try.
On 2011. 3. 1., at 오전 12:51, "Usman Waheed" <usm...@opera.com> wrote: > HI, > > I have been using the Thrift Perl API to connect to Hbase for my web app. At > the moment i only perform random reads and scans based on date ranges and > some other search criteria. > It works and I am still testing performance. > > -Usman > >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, edward choi <mp2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am planning to make a search engine for news articles. It will probably >>> have over several billions of news articles so I thought HBase is the way to >>> go. >>> >>> However, I am very new to CGI. All I know is that you use php, python or >>> java script with HTML to make a web site and communicate with the backend >>> database such as MySQL. >>> >>> But I am going to use HBase, not MySQL, and I can't seem to find a script >>> language that provides any form of API to communicate with HBase. >>> >>> So what do I do? >>> >>> Do I have to make a web site with pure Java? Is that even possible? >> >> It is possible, if you know things like JSP, Java servelets etc. >> >> For people comfortable with PHP or Python, I think Apache Thrift >> (http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/) is an alternative. >> >> -b >> >>> >>> Or is using Hbase as the backend Database a bad idea in the first place? >>> > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/