As someone working in the clickstream analytics space right now, I strongly second this.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for that one andrew. I think a great story is unifying both > analytics > and real time on a single platform. This makes dev and ops so much easier. > In fact the bigtable paper alludes to this strength. A single data platform > for most your needs is powerful. > > Of course some super speciality needs might require additional platforms. > Eg: MySQL for highly relational data. Memcache for high read data. And so > on. But It is important from an architecture pov to keep distinct systems > count low. > > On Mar 9, 2010 4:13 PM, "Andrew Purtell" <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > > I came to this discussion late. > > Ryan and J-D's use case is clearly successful. > > In addition to what others have said, I think another case where HBase > really excels is supporting analytics over Big Data (which I define as on > the order of petabyte). Some of the best performance numbers are put up by > scanners. There is tight integration with the Hadoop MapReduce framework, > not only in terms of API support but also with respect to efficient task > distribution over the cluster -- moving computation to data -- and there is > a favorable interaction with HDFS's location aware data placement. Moving > computation to data like that is one major reason how analytics using the > MapReduce paradigm can put conventional RDBMS/data warehouses to shame for > substantially less cost. Since 0.20.0, results of analytic computations > over > the data can be materialized and served out in real time in response to > queries. This is a complete solution. > > - Andy > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> > > To: hbase-u...@hadoop.apac... > > > Sent: Tue, March 9, 2010 3:34:55 PM > > Subject: Re: Use cases of HBase > > > > > HBase operates more like a write-thru cache. Recent writes are in > > memory (aka memstore). Older... > > > wrote: > > > Ryan, your confidence has me interested in exploring HBase a bit > further > for > > > some r... > > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Ryan Rawson wrote: > > > > > >> One thing to note is that 10GB is ha... > > > >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > >> > Brian, > > >> > > > >> > I would just r... > > > >> wrote: > > >> >> > > >> >>> > > >> >>> This is exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for thanks, B... > > > >> >>> wrote: > > >> >>> > > > >> >>> >> > > >> >>> >> Hi all, I've got a question about how everyone is... > -- --- Thanks, Charles Woerner
