Thanks for the clear answer Andy. The comparison actually was conducted by hypertable dev team, so I guess it wasn't all that fair to hbase. I have regained the confidence in hbase once more :)
Ed From mp2893's iPhone On 2011. 5. 26., at 오전 12:03, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I can speak for all of the HBase devs that in our opinion this vendor > "benchmark" was designed by hypertable to demonstrate a specific feature of > their system -- autotuning -- in such a way that HBase was, obviously, not > tuned. Nobody from the HBase project was consulted on the results or to do > such tuning, as is common courtesy when running a competitive benchmark, if > the goal is a fair test. Furthermore the "benchmark" code was not a community > accepted benchmark such as YCSB. > > I do not think the results are valid beyond being some vendor FUD and do not > warrant much comment beyond this. > > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via > Tom White) > > > --- On Wed, 5/25/11, edward choi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: edward choi <[email protected]> >> Subject: hbase and hypertable comparison >> To: [email protected], [email protected] >> Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 12:47 AM >> I'm planning to use a NoSQL >> distributed database. >> I did some searching and came across a lot of database >> systems such as >> MongoDB, CouchDB, Hbase, Cassandra, Hypertable, etc. >> >> Since what I'll be doing is frequently reading a varying >> amount of data, and >> less frequently writing a massive amount of data, >> I thought Hbase, or Hypertable is the way to go. >> >> I did some internet and found some performance comparison >> between HBase and >> HyperTable. >> Obviously HT dominated Hbase in every aspect (random >> read/write and a couple >> of more) >> >> But the comparison was made with Hbase 0.20.4, and Hbase >> had much >> improvements since the current version is 0.90.3. >> >> I am curious if the performance gap is still large between >> Hbase and HT. >> I am running Hadoop already so I wanted to go with Hbase >> but the performance >> gap was so big that it made me reconsider. >> >> Any opinions please? >>
