I'm game. Late afternoon is better. Let me see if can get other SFers to show up. Bring your dataset. St.Ack
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:51 PM, tim robertson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > >> > > >
