On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Patrick Angeles <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 'Big Data' refers to the overall data-set size, not the size of an > individual row / field. One of HBase's main strengths is the ability to run > in a clustered environment where you can have, say, 100s of machines acting > as your 'database' server.
Thanks for clarifying the point... > > HBase relies on Hadoop to do it's work. If you don't think you'll need to > scale, this solution might be overkill. You might have a look at document > oriented databases (CouchDB, etc). CouchDB looks interesting, but HBase seems more suitable to my needs....If by the grace almighty then scaling would be must for my case :), so that reaffirms that HBase is the right way to go. Thank you, Imran
