The biggest ever HBase User Group went off this past Friday, August 7 at StumbleUpon HQ in San Francisco. We had over 30 attendees, ranging from new users to committers, and four presentations. Big thanks to everyone for coming out, and especially to StumbleUpon for hosting us.
Jonathan Gray (me) covered the new features, architecture, and API of the latest HBase 0.20 release, Michael Stack introduced the proposed features for 0.21, Ryan Rawson led a great practical discussion from his experiences using HBase at StumbleUpon, and finally Bradford Stephens gave an interesting talk on building an analytics framework atop Hadoop and HBase.
To read about what’s planned for the next release of HBase, 0.21, check out the HBase 0.21 Roadmap, notes from the HBase Hackathon Day One Wrap-Up, or issues in JIRA.
HBase 0.20 Introduction
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Practical HBase at StumbleUpon
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Hadoop Analytics - A DB for 80% of Big Data sites
JG
#1 by stack at August 11th, 2009
Here’s some pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/saint.ack/HbaseHackathon#
#2 by Otis Gospodnetic at August 12th, 2009
I’m curious about using HBase for analytics. Why HBase for analytics vs. a star schema with dimensions, etc. in RDBMS?
This is not a tease question!
#3 by Jonathan Gray at August 13th, 2009
Hey Otis. Responded to your post over on your blog:
http://www.jroller.com/otis/entry/hbase_vs_rdbms_star_schema