OhmData C5: an improved HBase
You’ll probably recognize the names behind OhmData and their improved HBase product C5. In their own HN words:
We say we can do failover in a couple of seconds. We want to make it subsecond, but we can’t do that reliably yet. In HBase this story is much more mixed.
We wanted to really reduce complexity, as a result, you can just apt-get install c5 on each node and you are done. It’s one daemon, one log file, and that’s it. No xmx nonsense, and almost no tuning or config files. I don’t know if you have dealt with hadoop before, but the complexity is high.
Finally we have a much more advanced wireformat. In fact it’s advanced by being simple (protobufs + http). As a result clients in languages other than java become very easy, without a thrift client.
Are we in a new stage of NoSQL databases: “X that doesn’t suck”?
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