zenjzen

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   by zenjzen 12y ago

   I'd prefer to read HN and not get depressed as fuck.
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   by zenjzen 12y ago

   Is this what HN has become? A fail-blog? :(
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   by zenjzen 12y ago

   I have another question: Why are people still doing joins in this day and age? Big data + joins = teh suck. I'm a big fan of compressed denormalized data.
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   by zenjzen 12y ago

   Simplistically speaking, you don't always have to do table scans. I run into this every day: "Let's use Hadoop and keep doing full table scans! It's scalable! We just add more machines!" Yeah, except continuing to
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   by zenjzen 12y ago

   I did too, mainly because S3 + Hadoop isn't going to provide the locality and speed that HDFS would. I don't think it's a fair comparison.
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   by zenjzen 12y ago

   I knew I smelled me some Cloudera... :) HBase: I think HBase (based on the sorting of qualifiers within rows) would be suited toward the "ranking" problem, that's why I brought it up. I see this as being a map-only job (and
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   by zenjzen 12y ago

   Completely agree with everything you said. I disagree about Impala, right now. It has great potential, but I don't think it's prod-ready yet. Also, why no mention of HBase?
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   by zenjzen 12y ago

   nice.