Congratulations to Steven and the rest of the Lily CMS team. Its extremely exciting to see all the developments centering HBase; specially since we are also looking to develop service around HBase.
I have to say that I find the HBase community to be extremely helpful and as rightly pointed earlier the committers seem to be tightly knitted. I can only look forward with a lot of promises. Thank you, Imran On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: >> From: Gibbon, Robert, VF-Group > [...] >> It was noted by some that Hbase has pretty much eclipsed >> Cassandra since FB dumped it in favour of hbase - but I >> guess its no competition... > > I don't see it as a competition. These two systems solve a similar but > partially disjoint set of scalability problems in different ways. Sometimes > one has a better fit for a use case, sometimes the other. > > Rackspace is heavily invested in improving Cassandra. > > On our part, we're getting more and more invested in improving HBase as we > ramp up. There are others. > > To each their own. > > That said, I would be lying if I didn't say that brings me some joy, mainly > because in my view the "marketing" for that other project sometimes goes into > the shady areas we see in the commercial space. If there is any advantage > HBase has, in my experience the caliber and integrity of the HBase committers > is top notch, and their focus is on tech not buzz sometimes to the project's > disadvantage against aggressive marketers. > > - Andy > > > > > > -- Imran M Yousuf Entrepreneur & Software Engineer Smart IT Engineering Dhaka, Bangladesh Email: im...@smartitengineering.com Blog: http://imyousuf-tech.blogs.smartitengineering.com/ Mobile: +880-1711402557
