Stack, Yes, I would think so. For every application with a large data set, I have 50 smaller OLTP oriented ones. More often we want to scale concurrent users, throughput, etc. rather than the data set.
Bottom line, HBase will be more relevant and applicable for these scenarios. Thanks again, Guy -----Original Message----- From: saint....@gmail.com [mailto:saint....@gmail.com] On Behalf Of stack Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:11 PM To: hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Hbase and linear scaling with small write intensive clusters On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Molinari, Guy <guy.molin...@disney.com>wrote: > > There are still significant pauses when splits occur. I suspect that if > this could be improved then Hbase would be more relevant for applications > managing smaller data sets where higher scalability requirements exist. > > We're working on it... http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1506. Should we up the priority on this issue? Thanks for reporting back. St.Ack