Thanks for the quick response Aman, Ok .., i see the point now.
currently i'm doing some research on creating a google books like application using hbase as a backend for storing the files and solr as indexer. From this prototype, my be i can measure how fast is hbase on serving data to the client ... (google using bigTable for their books.google.com right ?) Thanks! Regards, Wildan On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Amandeep Khurana <ama...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hypertable is not as mature as Hbase yet. The next release of Hbase, 0.20.0, > includes some patches which reduce the latency of responses and makes it > suitable to be used as a backend for a webapp. However the current release > isnt optimized for this purpose. > > The idea behind Hadoop and the rest of the tools around it is more of a data > processing system than a backend datastore for a website. The output of the > processing that Hadoop does is typically taken into a MySQL cluster which > feeds a website. > > > -- --- OpenThink Labs www.tobethink.com Aligning IT and Education >> 021-99325243 Y! : hawking_123 Linkedln : http://www.linkedin.com/in/wildanmaulana