On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Michael Segel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok.. > > Look, here's the thing... HBase has no transactional support. > OLTP systems like PoS systems, Hotel Reservation Systems, Trading systems... > among others really need this. > > Again, I can't stress this point enough... DO NOT THINK ABOUT USING HBASE AS > AN OLTP SYSTEM UNLESS YOU HAVE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS OF > DEMONSTRATING WHY YOU CAN NOT DO THIS IN AN RDBMS. > Here Nicolas proves my point. FB in their example says that they couldn't fit > their messages in to an RDBMs.
I agree with your points, but he wrote that it would be hard, not that it could not be done. https://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook -- Mark Callaghan [email protected]
