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Subject: Re: Cassandra vs HBase
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:49:21 -0500
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Thanks. That is interesting and what I was looking for.

I knew V.20 was closing the gap. Probably good to compare with V0.5B1  
on the Cassandra side. I'd think that fast multi-get and batch insert/ 
update would be interesting to compare and benchmark. I know we are  
taxing Cassandra now and working on some auxillary means (outside if  
Thrift) to see what the per node limits really are...

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On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:35 AM, "Matt Revelle" <mrevelle@gmail.com> wrote:

> Cassandra performance likely still beats HBase, but according to the  
> "Powered By" page on the HBase wiki it is being used to handle  
> realtime requests by StumbleUpon, Meetup, and Streamy (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/PoweredBy 
> ).
>
> These two documents contain some performance numbers:
> http://static.last.fm/johan/nosql-20090611/hbase_nosql.pdf  (skip to  
> page 22)
> http://www.slideshare.net/schubertzhang/hbase-0200-performance-evaluation
>
> Both Cassandra and HBase are useful tech, I just wanted to point out  
> that HBase performance has improved over the past year and it can  
> handle realtime requests.
>
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 11:08 PM, Tim Estes wrote:
>
>> Can you link/reference those? I haven't seen random read or write  
>> performance numbers published around V0.20 Hbase that are within 5x  
>> of Cassandra. I'm very curious about this...
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2009, at 11:05 PM, "Matt Revelle" <mrevelle@gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 5, 2009, at 21:45, Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Bill Hastings wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> [Is] HBase used for real timish applications and if so any ideas  
>>>>> what the largest deployment is.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know of anyone off the top of my head who's using  
>>>> anything built on top of Hadoop for a real-time environment.  
>>>> Hadoop just wasn't built for that. It was built, like MapReduce,  
>>>> for crunching absurd amounts of data across hundreds of nodes in  
>>>> a "reasonable" amount of time.
>>>>
>>>> Just my $0.02.
>>>>
>>>> --Joe
>>>>
>>>
>>> While Hadoop MapReduce isn't meant for realtime use, HBase can  
>>> handle it.
>>>
>>> Over last summer there were some benchmarks included in HBase/ 
>>> Hadoop presentations that showed, IIRC, performance comparable to  
>>> Cassandra.
>>>
>