Yes you can store binary data in hbase, all data in hbase is treated as just raw bytes. It would probably suit well things like thumbnails? I think youtube uses bigtable for the thumbnail images of their videos. And they store their actual videos in cdn's (and gfs for the longtail I guess).
So if you have a lot of large binaries, you'll probably want just the links in hbase, with the files elsewhere. Maybe mogilefs is more suitable then hdfs though, because hdfs doesn't like lots of "small" files? ~Tim. 2009/8/10 Rocks <[email protected]>: > Hi,i want to konw whether hbase can store picture and video as blob field? > Maybe I should store the picture path in it ,and point to the pic or video > in file system? > but how to store the pic and video ,how to define the path pointed to the > file system in top of hadoop? Can anyone give me some suggestion? > And i am still uncertain where is my hbase storage file in my HDFS ?In the > command "bin/hadoop dfs -ls" , i cannot see anything related to hbase file. > It will be greatly appreciated if you give me some hlep. >
