On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Ross Rick <r...@semanticresearch.com> wrote: > I would want to use a properly scaled HBase for the desktop, and then, as is > appropriate for my app, push that data to cluster. This process is nearly > seamless when the underlying language is the same. Success in the future > isn't likely just about how big you can get. Dare I say it, it's probably > more like 'rightsizing' your data. >
You are right. We should have a better one-box story than we do. Development is generally off at the other end of the scale, on making the multinode installs run smooth with a working-one-box getting only as much attention as it takes to run unit tests and simple loadings. Our other-than-single-box -- or two to three nodes even -- focus has probably hurt us over time since thats what noobs start on. If they don't get a good feeling running on a small cluster, why would they expect it to be different when they move beyond that. Its my sense that If someone was up for working on our one-box story, they'd only get encouragement. Thanks for writing, St.Ack
