Stuart, In general you will get a quicker response to HBase questions by posting them to the HBase mailing list (hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org) see http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/mailing_lists.html for how to subscribe.
Perhaps the best document on scaling HBase is actually the Bigtable paper: http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html --- Jim Kellerman, Senior Engineer; Powerset (a Microsoft Company) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Stuart Sierra > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Why is scaling HBase much simpler then scaling a relational db? > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Mork0075 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you please explain, why someone should use HBase for horizontal > > scaling instead of a relational database? One reason for me would be, > > that i don't have to implement the sharding logic myself. Are there other? > > A slight tangent -- there are various tools that implement sharding > over relational databases like MySQL. Two that I know of are > DBSlayer, > http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer > and MySQL Proxy, > http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy > > I don't know of any formal comparisons between sharding traditional > database servers and distributed databases like HBase. > -Stuart
