Hello Ruby developers, We're open-sourcing (MIT) our Ruby object-data mapping layer for column-oriented distributed databases (i.e. HBase). *BigRecord* is heavily based on ActiveRecord, so its syntax should be familiar for Rails users.
We're currently using a Drb driver running in jRuby to talk to HBase using its native Java client. The BigRecord layer is abstracted from HBase and to prove it, we've also written a basic Cassandra driver. You can install BigRecord and BigRecord Driver as gems. The first version (0.0.5) is available now. See http://www.bigrecord.org for more details. We've been using this release internally for about a month now and it is stable. Looking forward to feedback from other Ruby + HBase users, Joost Ouwerkerk openplaces.
