Hi Steven, First off, congrats for the progress! This is super exciting.
As usual, if you need help you know where to find us :) but it seems you have it all well under control. As far as Buzzwords is concerned, I had a proposal submitted but was rejected. But with projects like Lily we will get more and more momentum going until a NoSQL event without HBase is unthinkable. Again, congratulations and all the best! Lars On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Steven Noels <stev...@outerthought.org> wrote: > Hi you all, > > first of all, thanks for a great project to base our work on, and we hope to > find more time to help and make it better. > > Yesterday, we announced Lily at Berlin Buzzwords, which is still going on at > the moment (I'm sitting in on the Cloudera sales pitch -eerrrrr- Hadoop > overview presentation) (I shouldn't be making fun of it, Aaron is a good > presenter). > > Anyway! > > Lily pre-release info is out, as written up on our blog and at > http://lilycms.org/lily/prerelease.html > > Lily = HBase + SOLR = content repository = scalable store + search. Apache > license. > > What could be of interest in this community, as I just mentioned in another > thread, is our work on a simple WAL/queue implementation backed by an HBase > table. Once we get back from Berlin, Evert, one of our Lily leads, promised > to deliver this really soon - you'll just have to give us another two-three > weeks to sort out code availability and some more release documentation - > apart from the on-going work on Lily proper itself, of course. > > One of the messages I take back from Berlin is that "there's more of us out > there", I met some HBase users with considerably-sized clusters (running > into RS OOME issues, which is bad) that haven't voiced themselves on this > list (which is equally bad). So in that respect, HBase use and community > seems smaller than it actually is. > > The great thing about HBase is that usage patterns seem to be on "the > ambitious side" of data storage, which goes nicely side by side with the > somewhat higher resource/infrastructure requirements than when getting > started with -let's say- Riak or Mongo or Couch. People ask us how we'll > "scale down" Lily (thus HBase) for smaller scale setups. It's an interesting > requirement, and we'll see how we can contribute in that area. > > Unfortunately, there was no proper HBase presentation at Berlin (apart from > me doing the Lily blablabla). Let's try and do this better next time. It's > great to see Cloudera pick up HBase, however we're convinced that the > ecosphere must get bigger than that. To this extent, we'll try to do our > part, if only at the EU side. > > Thanks a lot for a great product, now I'm going to enjoy NoSQL, German beer > and sausages some more. > > Steven. > -- > Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ > Outerthought Open Source Java & XML > stevenn at outerthought.org Makers of the Daisy CMS >
