Note that BigTable has a system on top of it called Megastore that handles #3: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/07/10/GoogleMegastore.aspx.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > * Ryan Rawson: > > > One thing about bigtable (and therefore hbase) is that the system > > doesn't provide much in the way for support of #3. No declarative > > indexes - you can have them, but you have to keep them up to date > > with code. No sorting, no distributed functions, nothing of the > > sort. Do it in client code, use a map-reduce for a longer > > computation. > > What about HBASE-883? (And is there a short example how to use > secondary indices?) >
