Re: HBase as a backend for GUI app?

2011-02-05 Thread tsuna
Just to add on what others said, at StumbleUpon we typically see a 99th percentile lower than 100ms for simple get/put operations. OpenTSDB also uses HBase with an interactive GWT interface and relies on sub-second response times for queries involving many thousands of rows. -- Benoit tsuna

Re: HBase as a backend for GUI app?

2011-02-03 Thread Ryan Rawson
I think the answer is 'it depends'. What exactly is a GUI app anyways these days? The wording is a little vague to me, does that include things like amazon.com and google reader? Or is it limited to things like Firefox, and desktop applications? I think ultimately the only thing that is a must

Re: HBase as a backend for GUI app?

2011-02-03 Thread Something Something
By GUI app, I meant, a browser based application that's written in GWT. For example, let's say an application that allows users to view logs such as, application server logs or 'click tracking logs' etc. These logs are HUGE, so our requirement is to allow users to view a month worth of data -

Re: HBase as a backend for GUI app?

2011-02-03 Thread Ryan Rawson
Well, at SU we access hbase directly from our website, so it is possible. We get great response times to our queries, but that doesnt mean you will get great response times to your queries. Perhaps you should build a POC and see where that goes? -ryan On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Something

Re: HBase as a backend for GUI app?

2011-02-03 Thread javamann
Sounds like we are doing the same thing. I am hitting an HBase backend from an Ajax frontend (via Spring MVC) to access our log files to generate the same type of reports. Most of the time I get sub-second response. Longest is around 8 seconds. This was my first try at HBase and my next rev.

Re: HBase as a backend for GUI app?

2011-02-03 Thread Dani Rayan
+1 for PS On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:32 PM, javam...@cox.net wrote: Sounds like we are doing the same thing. I am hitting an HBase backend from an Ajax frontend (via Spring MVC) to access our log files to generate the same type of reports. Most of the time I get sub-second response. Longest is

Re: HBase as a backend for GUI app?

2011-02-03 Thread Something Something
Thanks everybody for the replies. Sounds very reassuring. We will continue with our plan of accessing HBase directly from GWT for our POC. Javamann - I like to be anonymous so I don't feel bad about asking dumb questions ;) On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dani Rayan dani.ra...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: HBase as a backend for GUI app?

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Dunning
There are no dumb questions, just dumb answers. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Something Something mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote: Javamann - I like to be anonymous so I don't feel bad about asking dumb questions ;)