Can you give a few examples of why hbase is hard to use ?

Disclaimer: I work on hbase 

Cheers



> On Jan 3, 2015, at 12:28 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hbase, a NoSQL database of the Hadoop family, is what you says   that is 
> built upon HDFS, but is there really strong reason that you would move from 
> MongoDB to Hbase? Is your data really that huge?
> 
> As far as I tell, Hbase is extremely hard to use, hard to maintain as well. 
> If I standood in your position, I would choose MongoDB with no hesitate
> 
> [email protected]
>  
> From: Alec Taylor
> Date: 2015-01-03 15:44
> To: user
> Subject: HDFS-based database for Big and Small data?
> Want to replace MongoDB with an HDFS-based database in my architecture.
>  
> Note that this is a new system, not a rewrite of an old one.
>  
> Are there any open-source "fast" read/write database built on HDFS
> with a model similar to a document-store, that can hold my regular
> business logic and enables an object model in Python? (E.g.: via Data
> Mapper or Active Record patterns)
>  
> Thanks for all suggestions
>  
> PS: I am using the "Big data" definition from Cloudera, i.e.: any data
> which expands more than one machine

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