I'm new to HBase and just in the learning phase - just reading the email list has been quite valuable, thank you!
I would just like to interject that if you could add the recommendations you give to the paper's authors to the wiki, that would be invaluable for others looking to obtaining the best performance. many thanks, -chris On Feb 9, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Stack wrote: > 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
