The real con to HBase is its maturity, or rather lack of maturity. Its still pretty much 'bleeding edge'. The issue is that when comparing to alternatives, your rdbms and hierarchical database technology is 20-30+ years old. (Revelation, Pick, U2/Universe are all examples of hierarchical databases).
So you have a limited pool of resources contributing to this. And while this is the major negative, its important to point out that HBase has evolved dramatically over the past 3 years and as more companies adopt HBase, the evolution should accelerate. > Subject: HBase's pros and cons > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:02:52 +0800 > > Hi there, > > I would like to get a few words about HBase's pros and cons > that may probably help my boss to make decision of adopting > HBase as production. > > Pros : High volumn data random access > Scale-out with commodity machine > Fault-tolerance > Free license > > Cons : No security control > Data loss risk > Redesign data schema > Lacking of aggregate function(Max, Min, Avg...) > Multiple client concurrent read/write performance > No commercial support now > > Any suggestion or correctness would be appreciated! > > > Fleming Chiu(邱宏明) > Cloudera Certification for Hadoop Map/Red Developer > TEL: 707-2260 > Email: [email protected] > Be Veg! Go Green! Save the planet! > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TSMC PROPERTY > This email communication (and any attachments) is proprietary information > for the sole use of its > intended recipient. Any unauthorized review, use or distribution by anyone > other than the intended > recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, > please notify the sender by > replying to this email, and then delete this email and any copies of it > immediately. Thank you. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1
