You can refer here http://wiki.apache.org/pig/zebra
2010/2/5 jian yi <eyj...@gmail.com> > What's the architecture of Zebra? Do it depend on Pig and HDFS? Please > help. > I hope it's following: > > > DFS is better for unstructed data, but DTS (not bigtable) is better for > structed data, data warehouse is structed, so I think a table is better > than > a file. DTS is following: > > 1. Break a logic big table into a many physical small table > 2. The same size blocks is not necessary > 3. The order of blocks is not necessary > 4. Only store structed data > 5. Support block indexes > 6. Support deleting and updating > 7. The interfaces are SQL, but only a block > 8. Spliting a table horizontally and vertically is supported at the > same time > 9. 。。。 > -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang