Hey Camilo, HBase is not meant to be a replacement for MySQL or a traditional RDBMS (HBase is not transaction, for instance). I'd recommend reading the following article that describes what HBase/Bigtable really is:
http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Understanding_Hbase_and_BigTable Thanks, Ryan On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Camilo Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ryan! > > Does this means that HBase could be used for Online applications, for > example, replacing MySQL in database-driven applications? > > Does anyone have any kind of benchmarks about the comparison between MySQL > queries/updates and HBase queries/updates? > > Have a nice day, > > Camilo. > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Ryan LeCompte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hadoop is best suited for distributed processing across many machines >> of large data sets. Most people use Hadoop to plow through large data >> sets in an offline fashion. One approach that you can use is to use >> Hadoop to process your data, then put it in an optimized form in HBase >> (i.e., similar to Google's Bigtable). Then, you can use HBase for >> querying the data in an online-access fashion. Refer to >> http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/ for more information about HBase. >> >> Ryan >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:46 PM, souravm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Here is a bsic doubt. >> > >> > I found in different documentation it is mentioned that Hadoop is not >> recommended for online applications. Can anyone please elaborate on the same >> ? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Sourav >> > >> > **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** >> > This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended >> solely >> > for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, >> please >> > notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you >> are not >> > to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other >> person and >> > any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys >> has taken >> > every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for >> any damage >> > you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry >> out your >> > own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys >> reserves the >> > right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from >> this e-mail >> > address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on >> the >> > Infosys e-mail system. >> > ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS*** >> > >> >
