Hi, I imagine lots of HBase folks have read or will want to read http://blog.milford.io/2011/04/why-i-am-very-excited-about-datastaxs-brisk/ , including comments.
My question has to do with one of the good comments from Edward Capriolo, who pointed out that some of the Configurations he described in his Cassandra as Memcached talk ( http://www.edwardcapriolo.com/roller/edwardcapriolo/resource/memcache.odp ) are not possible with HBase because in HBase there is only 1 copy of any given Region and it lives on a single RegionServer (I'm assuming this is correct?), thus making it impossible to spread reads of data from one Region over multiple RegionServers: http://blog.milford.io/2011/04/why-i-am-very-excited-about-datastaxs-brisk/#comment-187253604 So I poked around on search-hadoop.com and JIRA, and looked at http://hbase.apache.org/book/regions.arch.html to see about this limitation, whether it's even mentioned as a limitation, whether there are plans to change it or if there are some configuration alternatives that would make some of those configurations described by Ed possible with HBase, but I actually didn't find any explicit information about that. Would anyone care to comment? :) Many thanks, Otis -- We're hiring HBase hackers for Data Mining and Analytics http://blog.sematext.com/2011/04/18/hiring-data-mining-analytics-machine-learning-hackers/
