Hi Gayatri,
I am myself quite new to hbase but from my little experience
and from whatever I have read, HBase is more suitable for environments with
high read and write, but very few updates and no real deletions. It is more
of a write once and forget kind of database. Cassandra or MongoDB might be
more suitable for your requirement imo. My advice would be to consider those
as well before making any decision.
thanks,
hari
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Gayatri Rao <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am new to hbase. I have been reading up documentation and studying how
> hbase suits to our requirement.
>
> We want to be able to store a key and corresponding values. However, while
> reading, i want to read values in sorted order something like the topN. Its
> a web facing environment and our requirement is write heavy infact they are
> updates of the already existing records (about 270K updates in an hour
> though actual data that needs to be stored in it might be much much more).
> Deletes would be in the order of a few thousands every day.
>
> I wanted to find out know your opinions on how good is hbase for this kind
> of scenario.
>
> Thanks,
> Gayatri
>
