Hi Ahmed, At Sematext we have a few SaaS products that use HBase as the primary data store. I hear Facebook uses HBase for some important stuff, too. ;) So far we've survived. HBase does have rough edges, but also good developers who are making it better every day.
Otis ---- Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - http://sematext.com/spm >________________________________ > From: S Ahmed <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 8:14 PM >Subject: hbase as a primary store, or is it more for "2nd class" data? > >I'm interested to learn if people are using hbase as a primary store or is >it more for "2nd class" type data. > >Pretend you have a CMS product, or eCommerce Saas application: > >What I mean by this is, I consider "primary store" to mean storing the >actual content (say articles, or blog posts), category data, user >information, or shopping cart order, product information. > >"2nd class" type data is data like metrics, analytics, log data, or say >index data (data that can be re-built via the primary store). > >In general 2nd class data is data that if lost, it won't bring the business >to its knees. > >What do you guys think, am I right? > >i.e. if you are creating a Saas product, it wouldn't be advisible to build >it using hbase (or it will be kind of bleeding edge architecture). > > >
