3 ms·

I love the premise of this, but consider me sceptical...those are some pretty bold claims for a brand-new database.

• alexnewman 12y ago
  It's not from scratch. We have about 100k lines of HBase in there. I am sorry if that isn't clear.
  • hiroprot 12y ago
    I got that part, but a decent part of it is new and unproven, right?
    • alexnewman 12y ago
      Fair enough. Plenty of new code. However, the design isn't a research project. It's actually pretty conservative.
    • ryanobjc 12y ago
      A lot less than you'd think - the fundamentals of HBase are excellent. File formats, compacting, etc is all solid and the same. The issues arise during fail over and the architecture of how HBase and HDFS interact. That is where the most changes are, and while it seems scary, I think people will find the changes most refreshing, and cut out literally hundreds of thousands of lines of code out of the write and read paths!
• alexnewman 12y ago
  But yes, please be skeptical. I can't wait for you to see the tests though. I bet you will fall in love.