> From: Bernd Fondermann <[email protected]> > And, isn't this 'competition' already happening between all the BT and Dynamo > implementations?
Yes there is, and there is clearly major architectural and implementation differences that make it worthwhile to promote such competition. Nobody disputes (that I know of) that one of BT or Dynamo is not going to be a good fit for use case X, but will be for use case Y, and so on. >From what I have heard -- and of course we are fumbling around in the dark a >bit here waiting for secret code yet to be released -- there is much less >distinction here between the code base proposed for incubation and HBase. I >hear a rumor it borrows some HBase code directly. > I fail to see anything bad happening here. See below... > are you saying that the proposal is actually some kind of HBase fork? This question can be answered by a detailed review of both code bases side by side. Let us call this a concern, not an assertion that anything bad is happening here. I at least do not have enough information on hand to say one way or another. Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White) >________________________________ >From: Bernd Fondermann <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Andrew Purtell ><[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2011 3:00 PM >Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Accumulo, another BigTable clone, has shown up on >Apache Incubator as a proposal > > > > >On Saturday, September 3, 2011, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm simply pointing out a lack of community involvement to date. >> >> >> I would only add to this that the incubation proposal makes a controversial >> statement regarding existing involvement with the HBase community. It may be >> technically true if a certain company with involvement in HBase has also >> been interacting with "Accumulo", but is disingenuous to claim that the >> "community" has been involved here. >> >> It looks like strictly a one way street: They have been able to observe or >> borrow the fruits of our labor for years, and now at a suitable point wish >> to incubate at the ASF to compete with our project for community. That is >> not "community involvement". That is leeching. > >are you saying that the proposal is actually some kind of HBase fork? > >And, isn't this 'competition' already happening between all the BT and Dynamo >implementations? > >I fail to see anything bad happening here. > > Bernd > >
