Is anyone available for an informal meetup? Markus and I are in SF leaving Wednesday morning. We have stuff to do but can be pretty flexible with times etc.
Tuesday late afternoon / early evening perhaps? Cheers, Tim On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:04 PM, stack<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
