You can have more control on hadoop, you can create your own cluster with hadoop. Although hdfs's latency is high, HBase is a good choice for real time application.
Jeff Zhang On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Alex McLintock <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm considering the pros and cons of Google App Engine compared to > Hadoop/Hbase/Hive/Cascading/Amazon EC2 . > > Has anyone looked into this question and tried to come up with > reasoned argument why Hadoop is better? If not, would this mailing > list be a good place to start discussing it? > > Basically the main advantage of using GAE is that you don't have to > worry about setting up a cluster, or distributed database, or anything > like that - it is done for you. But you are sort of tied in to > google's way of doing things. > > Of course hadoop doesn't help at all with actual web serving. It's > latency is too high. > > Alex >
