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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:28:10 -0400
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Subject: Re: HBase and Accumulo
From: Ted Malaska <ted.malaska@cloudera.com>
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I've been doing HBase for a long time and never had an issue with region
count limits and I have clusters with 10s of billions of records.  Many
there would be issues around a couple Trillion records, but never got that
high yet.

Ted Malaska

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Josh Elser <josh.elser@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, one other thing that I should mention (was prompted off-list).
>
> (definition time since cross-list now: HBase regions == Accumulo tablets)
>
> Accumulo will handle many more regions than HBase does now due to a
> splittable metadata table. While I was told this was a very long and
> arduous journey to implement correctly (WRT splitting, merges and bulk
> loading), users with "too many regions" problems are extremely few and far
> between for Accumulo.
>
> I was very happy to see effort/design being put into this in HBase. And,
> just to be fair in criticism/praises, HBase does appear to me to do
> assignments of regions much faster than Accumulo does on a small cluster
> (~5-10 nodes). Accumulo may take a few seconds to notice and reassign
> tablets. I have yet to notice this with HBase (which also could be due to
> lack of personal testing).
>
>
> Jerry He wrote:
>
>> Hi, folks
>>
>> We have people that are evaluating HBase vs Accumulo.
>> Security is an important factor.
>>
>> But I think after the Cell security was added in HBase, there is no more
>> real gap compared to Accumulo.
>>
>> I know we have both HBase and Accumulo experts on this list.
>> Could someone shred more light?
>> I am looking for real gap comparing HBase to Accumulo if there is any so
>> that I can be prepared to address them. This is not limited to the
>> security
>> area.
>>
>> There are differences in some features and implementations. But they don't
>> see like real 'gaps'.
>>
>> Any comments and feedbacks are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>

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