> On Mar 5, 2012, at 6:28 PM, D S wrote: > Simple, I want to see what is meant by the claim that HBase = Big Table. > How far does this claim go?
Who is making this claim? I think we say that HBase is a BigTable clone, because it attempts to be faithful to the BigTable architecture as described in Google's BigTable paper of 2004. > How identical are the two products? Does it stop at the fronted > specifications? An architectural comparison would be valid. Pull the Google BigTable paper and then grab a copy of Lars George's HBase book or read the source and/or ask questions. > Does it go into the internals? I just want to know how identical > these two products are and how different are the two. > If I took the current build of HBase and had a time machine and installed > it in all those circa 2003 Google servers (and not one server more), would > I end up with something similar to what Google had back then? Google's BigTable is closed source, so who can say. Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
