HBase is not the best choice for blob(photo/image/...) storage(file sizes are ofter smaller than tens of MB).
Here are several blob storage systems : google blob storage : https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/blobstore/overview facebook haystack : http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919 twitter : http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/12/blobstore-twitters-in-house-photo.html taobao tfs : http://code.taobao.org/p/tfs/src/trunk/src/ (https://github.com/taobao/tfs) Thanks, ________________________________________ 发件人: Mohit Anchlia [[email protected]] 发送时间: 2013年1月6日 13:45 收件人: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] 主题: Re: 答复: Storing images in Hbase IMHO Use dfs unread for blobs and use Hbase for meta data Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2013, at 7:58 PM, 谢良 <[email protected]> wrote: > Just out of curiousity, why not considering a blob storage system ? > > Best Regards, > Liang > ________________________________________ > 发件人: kavishahuja [[email protected]] > 发送时间: 2013年1月5日 18:11 > 收件人: [email protected] > 主题: Storing images in Hbase > > *Hello EVERYBODY > first of all, a happy new year to everyone !! > I need a small help regarding pushing images into apache HBase(DB)...i know > its about converting objects into bytes and then saving those bytes into > hbase rows. But still i cant do it. > Kindly help !! * > > Regards, > Kavish > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-hbase.679495.n3.nabble.com/Storing-images-in-Hbase-tp4036184.html > Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
