Hello, Samuru,
Thank you for your opinion. I love HBase's API, too. Cassandra's API and its
data model (supercolumns) are complicated to us.
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From: "Samuru Jackson" <[email protected]>
I evaluated Cassandra and HBase for a particular problem domain and
found that Cassandra is a huge pain in the a... in terms of API.
Actually, I think it comes directly from hell to punish developers...
there are already so many wrappers around for that reason!
Anyway - I agree that Cassandra is super easy to setup up in a
distributed mode. It can be done within minutes without almost any
knowledge about it. On the other hand HBase takes a lot of time
set-up, configure, troubleshoot, ... . I also think that the
documentation, in terms of structure and presentation, is not that
great. Actually they even reference to some external ressources like
blogs, that describe HBase internals. From my point of view thats a
big big minus for HBase that they don't have an out-of-the-box
experiences. BUT, after some while it is realistic to master HBase and
gain some understanding and *** I love the API ***!!!
