I was going to send that originally but I was concerned the bullet formatting might not survive. I was also hoping we could list some happy customers. I'll just send this for now.
-Matt On 4/29/10 5:27 PM, Doug Cutting wrote: > From: > > http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/docs/current/api/java/overview-summary.html > > Avro provides: > > * Rich data structures. > * A compact, fast, binary data format. > * A container file, to store persistent data. > * Remote procedure call (RPC). > * Simple integration with dynamic languages. Code generation is > not required to read or write data files nor to use or > implement RPC protocols. Code generation as an optional > optimization, only worth implementing for statically typed > languages. > > Doug > > Matt Massie wrote: >> I need a 150 word description of the Avro project as part of us becoming >> a TLP. If I don't hear from anyone, I'll just go ahead and write one >> myself. I wanted to check if anyone already had something more than we >> put on our docs page. >> Also, what high-profile users can we publicly talk about? >> >> Thanks >> -Matt >> >> >> Here is an example from Cassandra: >> >> About Apache Cassandra >> >> Apache Cassandra is an advanced, second-generation "NoSQL" distributed >> data store that has a shared-nothing architecture. The Cassandra >> decentralized model provides massive scalability, and is highly >> available with no single point of failure even under the worst >> scenarios. Originally developed at Facebook and submitted to the ASF >> Incubator in 2009, Cassandra graduated as a Top-Level Apache Project in >> February 2010, added more than a half-dozen new committers, and is >> deployed by dozens of high-profile users such as Cisco WebEx, Cloudkick, >> Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, Reddit, and Twitter, among others. >> >> >>
