Yahoo Research have developed a benchmarking tool for "Cloud Serving Systems". In their paper describing the tool, http://www.brianfrankcooper.net/pubs/ycsb.pdf, which they intend to open source soon, they compare four "Cloud Serving Systems". HBase is one.
In the comparisons, HBase doesn't make a good showing and the paper gives HBase a bit of beating, sometimes deserved, other times not. It looks like configuration changes to better suit the paper's loadings and data format, a bug fix (HBASE-2180), and some back and forth with the authors should improve significantly on our previous outing as well as on how HBase is represented in the paper. This note is just to let hbasers know that a few of us are working on making sure HBase doesn't get labelled "slow" -- again -- especially when this time around its underserved. Yours, St.Ack
