I'm game only you are arriving at bad time Tim. Thats labor day w/e. Fellas won't be around (generally). They'll be out in the desert covered in dust dancing around giant dolls. So, 8th is probably the day you'll catch most of the SF crew. Just FYI. Can help you w/ places to go np. St.Ack
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:46 AM, tim robertson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm going to be in the San Fran area the 6,7,8 September and would > love the chance to meet with some of the HBase users, developers if > anyone is interested? > > I work with a Global Biodiversity Information network (GBIF) that has > several thousand databases publishing data using well defined XML > standards. We crawl and build an index of this information that > currently resides in Mysql, and has 180million records in each of the > 2 largest tables; and we are outgrowing mysql. We already use Hadoop > to do various processes, but are about to try HBase as the backend > store after doing various tests recently. We are not a huge cluster > (16 nodes) but I think we are a nice case study, and because we are > able to document openly and freely it could be something to reference > from the HBase wikis. We are building search indexes, running > statistical reports, annotating records (geocoding, quality control) > creating maps (e.g. tile layers) etc so the output is technically > quite interesting and the data is used for all kinds of scientific > analysis. All our code is open source. > > We are a small team (3-4 developers) so would very much like the > opportunity to pick the brains of others. We are keen to help improve > HBase as well; probably more in the testing capacity than committing > due to our workloads, but will do whatever we can. > > Cheers, > > Tim >
