Re: HadoopDB ("PostgreSQL...shared-nothing cluster... accepts queries in MapReduce or SQL")

On 7/21/09 12:42 PM, Ron Mayer wrote:
> This looks exciting.  Another postgresql-other-software-chimera with
> impressive performance and scalability.
>
>
> http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/announcing-release-of-hadoopdb-longer.html
>> It's an open source stack that includes PostgreSQL Hadoop, and Hive, along
>> with some glue between PostgreSQL and Hadoop, a catalog, a data loader, and
>> an interface that accepts queries in MapReduce or SQL and generates query
>> plans that are processed partly in Hadoop and partly in different PostgreSQL
>> instances spread across many nodes in a shared-nothing cluster of machines.

Oh, cool.  I have a use for this *right now*.

--Josh


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Josh Berkus
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