To beat a dead horse, yet another way to view adding even simple search functionality to HBase is I think it'd put it on equal ground to something like MongoDB?
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Jason Rutherglen <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious as to what a 'good' approach would be for implementing > search in HBase (using Lucene) with the end goal being the integration > of realtime search into HBase. I think the use case makes sense as > HBase is realtime and has a write-ahead log, performs automatic > partitioning, splitting of data, failover, redundancy, etc. These are > all things Lucene does not have out of the box, that we'd essentially > get for 'free'. > > For starters: Where would be the right place to store Lucene segments > or postings? Eg, we need to be able to efficiently perform a linear > iteration of the per-term posting list(s). > > Thanks! > > Jason Rutherglen >
