Feng Lu, welcome! :)
-----Original message----- > From:Julien Nioche <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon 18-Mar-2013 13:23 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WELCOME] Feng Lu as Apache Nutch PMC and Committer > > Hi Feng, > > Congratulations on becoming a committer and welcome! > > [...] > > > A problem has been troubling me a long time is that what is the target of > nutch 1.x, Does nutch 1.x is just a transitional version of Nutch 2.x, or > they can coexist because Nutch 1.x has a different data processing method > to Nutch 2.x, > > the latter, it's not so much the processing method that differs as they are > very similar but the way data are stored. > > like Julien said, Nutch 1.x is great for batch processing and > 2.x large scale processing. > > Hmm, I don't think I said that. Both are batch orientated and 1.x is probably > better at large scale processing than 2.x (at least currently) > > Perhaps with more and more people use NoSql as > their back-end DB, the developers should focus more on the development of > Nutch 2.x, ensure its stability and improve its function. > > IMHO it's not that the developers should focus on this or that. I see it more > as an evolutionary process where things get improved because they are used in > the first place or get derelict and abandoned if there is no interest from > users. If as you say people prefer to have a SQL backend instead of the > sequential HDFS data structures then there will be more contributions and as > a result 2.x will be improved. > > Julien > > > -- > <http://digitalpebble.com/img/logo.gif> > Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering > > http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ <http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/> > http://www.digitalpebble.com <http://www.digitalpebble.com> > http://twitter.com/digitalpebble <http://twitter.com/digitalpebble> >
