mikewalch closed pull request #61: Moved BigTable reference to design doc
URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo-website/pull/61
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diff --git a/_docs-2-0/getting-started/design.md
b/_docs-2-0/getting-started/design.md
index 7f6a880f..f1ba58a1 100644
--- a/_docs-2-0/getting-started/design.md
+++ b/_docs-2-0/getting-started/design.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ category: getting-started
order: 1
---
+## Background
+
+The design of Apache Accumulo is inspired by Google's [BigTable paper].
+
## Data Model
Accumulo provides a richer data model than simple key-value stores, but is not
a
@@ -177,6 +181,7 @@ TabletServer failures are noted on the Master's monitor
page, accessible via
+[BigTable paper]: https://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html
[monitor]: {{page.docs_baseurl}}/administration/monitoring-metrics#monitoring
[tracing]: {{page.docs_baseurl}}/administration/tracing
[clients]: {{page.docs_baseurl}}/getting-started/clients
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index f902a80d..9f89e636 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
<h3>Apache Accumulo® is a sorted, distributed key/value store that
provides robust, scalable data storage and retrieval.</h3>
<a class="btn btn-success" href="downloads/" role="button"><i class="fa
fa-download fa-lg"></i> Download</a>
</div>
- <p id="home-description">Apache Accumulo is a key/value store based on the
design of Google's <a
href="https://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html";>BigTable</a>. Accumulo
stores its data in <a href="https://hadoop.apache.org";>Apache Hadoop</a>'s HDFS
and uses <a href="https://zookeeper.apache.org";>Apache Zookeeper</a> for
consensus. While many users interact directly with Accumulo, several <a
href="/related-projects">open source projects</a> use Accumulo as their
underlying store.</p>
+ <p id="home-description">With Apache Accumulo, users can store and manage
large data sets across a cluster. Accumulo uses <a
href="https://hadoop.apache.org";>Apache Hadoop</a>'s HDFS to store its data and
<a href="https://zookeeper.apache.org";>Apache ZooKeeper</a> for consensus.
While many users interact directly with Accumulo, several <a
href="/related-projects">open source projects</a> use Accumulo as their
underlying store.</p>
<p id="home-description">To learn more about Accumulo, take the <a
href="/tour">Accumulo tour</a>, read the <a href="/{{ site.latest_minor_release
}}/accumulo_user_manual.html">user manual</a> and run the Accumulo <a
href="https://github.com/apache/accumulo-examples";>example code</a>. Feel free
to <a href="/contact-us">contact us</a> if you have any questions.
<h3>Major Features</h3>
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