Re: Something all DBAs should see!

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/11/11/hadoop-world-rethinking-the-data-warehouse-with-hadoop-and-hive-from-ashish-thusoo/ > > You may not believe in Hadoop/HBase, but here's a good presentation on > building a world class large scale data warehouse. That's nice, Gumby, but let's just look at this: they're not using ANY database. They're not even using Hadoop. They are building their very own database specifically to underpin their business. I suspect that Facebook is also full of programmers who like nothing more than creating their own infrastructure, so they didn't investigate commercial options very thoroughly. This will, I predict, bite them severely in the arse, if it hasn't already. But you'll never hear about it. It would fuck their IPO or share price. What you are proposing would inevitably have consequences for all the other users of IDS. And I can promise you that for all the sizzle of column-oriented data, there is one killer problem: *no-one will buy it*. You may have it bundled into a few ELA's and some sad life donor like yourself may actually unwrap the software and fiddle with it, but no company is actually going to use it and it's certainly NOT going to sell enough to recoup the investment. If you really reckon there's a market, I'd like to point you at this: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v115/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.dapif.doc/dapif.htm And here's the other thing you need: http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/releases.html Put your money where you mouth is, Gumby: write the Hadoop/HBase DataBlade. Then go sell it and show me how fucking wrong I was. > This is why IBM should look at putting in column oriented data types, as > well as bringing in the near linear scalability of XPS in to IDS. > > You would be a clown not to ;-) Off you go then, motormouth. Prove me wrong. ;o) -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com I will now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.