On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, edward choi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to make a search engine for news articles. It will probably > have over several billions of news articles so I thought HBase is the way to > go. > > However, I am very new to CGI. All I know is that you use php, python or > java script with HTML to make a web site and communicate with the backend > database such as MySQL. > > But I am going to use HBase, not MySQL, and I can't seem to find a script > language that provides any form of API to communicate with HBase. > > So what do I do? > > Do I have to make a web site with pure Java? Is that even possible?
It is possible, if you know things like JSP, Java servelets etc. For people comfortable with PHP or Python, I think Apache Thrift (http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/) is an alternative. -b > > Or is using Hbase as the backend Database a bad idea in the first place? >
