On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Taylor, Ronald C <ronald.tay...@pnnl.gov> wrote: > Re file systems: while HBase can theoretically run on other scalable file > systems, I remember somebody on the HBase list saying, in effect, that unless > you are a file system guru and willing to put in a heck of a lot of work, the > only practical choice as an underlying file system is Hadoop's HDFS. I think > that was something like half a year ago or more, so maybe things have > changed. Any of the HBase developers on the HBase list have an update (or a > correction to my recollection)? >
See our book on 'Which Hadoop': http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hadoop. It tells our 'which version of hadoop' story. It talks of how you need to use the unreleased branch-0.20-append branch or run Cloudera's CDH3u1. It also mentions the newcomer MapR as an alternative. They did the work to make HBase run on their filesystem. St.Ack
