Sean, Take a look at Cassandra, Hbase and Voldemort as well. All provide interesting variants on NOSQL capability.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Isabel Drost <isa...@apache.org> wrote: > On 19.05.2010 Sean Bartell wrote: > > I was looking for something to do over the summer, and the mentoring > > program looked like a good choice. I've recently developed an interest > > in filesystems and NoSQL databases, so I'm interested in working on > > CouchDB or Hadoop. So far, I've messed around with CouchDB and submitted > > a small patch for a bug. Is one of these projects a better candidate for > > mentoring, or should I keep looking into both? > > I'd say that depends mostly on your own preference - namely in terms of > programming language, the topics you are interested in. Usually it is > easiest to > get active at a project that you are actually using yourself. > > From your e-mail I conclude that you have some experience with CouchDB > already. > As for Hadoop: Did you have a look at the code base or the open issues in > JIRA > already? I guess you might want to have a closer look at the HDFS or HBase > stuff. > > > > Also, if I decide I want to work on one, is that project's mailing list > the > > right place to ask for project ideas? > > You might want to have a look at JIRA first - search for open issues you > are > interested in working on, there might be some issues marked as suitable for > GSoC > students. Those might be interesting for you as well. > > Going to the mailing lists and just asking for ideas of course is an idea > as > well. However working on Mahout and dealing with students there as well, I > have > the impression that students tend to be more successful when not told what > to do > but when choosing their tasks themselves. > > Isabel >
