Sorry for the late response on this thread. Many thanks for your interesting links, and also thanks to Jean for finishing up the wiki document. Here is a presentation by Jonathan Gray, which I would like to share with hbase users and might be the good start for beginners. Well, it helped me to understand the underlying concept and usage of hbase substantially. May be some of you have already known about it, the link is as follows:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2996433/Hadoop-and-HBase-vs-RDBMS Shiraz On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Jim Twensky <[email protected]> wrote: > Shiraz, > > If you would like to read some more on what you can do with Hbase and > compare it to an RDBMS you may also find this article helpful: > http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Understanding_Hbase_and_BigTable > > Jim > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Shiraz, > > > > I'm the one who started writing that page in September and I just kicked > my > > lazy ass to at least complete the example. Have a look! > > > > J-D > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:06 AM, shiraz memon > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am new to HBase and found it very interesting in terms of fulfilling > > > scalibility requirements of an enterprise. While browsing > documentation, > > > unfortunately, I found incomplete article on HBase data model, which > can > > be > > > viewed under http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/DataModel. Do you > have > > > any > > > other info on relational/bigtable conceptual mapping or plans to > complete > > > it? I know that hbase is not meant for substituting current rdbms's but > > can > > > be a good start for the hbase beginners who also have some background > of > > > relational models like me. Sorry if I am getting too long. > > > > > > Thanks and great work. > > > > > > Shiraz > > > > > >
