On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ted Dunning <tdunn...@maprtech.com> wrote:
> I am very sympathetic here. Also, somewhat linguistically challenged on > this point since there is a fine line to be walked. All suggestions are > welcome. > > How should I answer this? The question was "how can I get alerts for my > hbase cluster"? > > One answer is definitely MapR. Is there a way to say that without being a > excessively pluggy? > > Another answer that I want to underscore is "MapR supports Hbase. A lot." > The issue is that I might be then tempted to start arguing that Cloudera Enterprise supports HBase better than MapR. Then we devolve into an annoying vendor war which doesn't help anyone. Best to just set a policy and stick to it for public responses. I don't see anything wrong with your replying off-list to the requester with a sales pitch. This provides the information that might help the user without risking polluting the -user list with a lot of discussion of commercial products. -Todd > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Ted Dunning <tdunn...@maprtech.com> > > wrote: > > > Slightly off topic, but MapR runs Hbase very handily (several times > > faster, > > > in fact) and provides comprehensive monitoring and alerting out of the > > box. > > > > > > > Hey Ted: > > > > MapR is good stuff indeed but the above can be read as a raw plug for > > a non-open-source/commercial product. > > > > I'd like to petition that you go easy with messages that could > > possibly be interpreted so. Other, not-such-close-in-friends of > > hbase, seeing 'commerical' messages up on our list might take it as > > license to dump their commercial messages for tech related, or not, > > into hbase mailing lists. A list riddled with commerical messages > > would likely sour many who are subscribed here. > > > > Thanks boss, > > St.Ack > > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
