On Sep 8, 2008, at 4:34 AM, DanTMan wrote:

> While doing some research for my new job (ok damn me, but I did the
> research for fun... but it did have relevance to my job), I came  
> across
> a little claim involving Wikia.
> http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/04/hbase-interview
>
> Says that Wikia is actively using HBase loaded with a sizeable  
> amount of
> data.
>
> Just curious, what kind of thing is HBase being used for at Wikia,  
> or is
> that page just making a false claim?
>
>

Wikia Search uses it, I am highly sceptical to the approach. Go check  
out cassandra which is partly based on Dynamo. Seems a much more  
sensible approach.

Artur
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