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?
>>> 
> 
> 
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