HBase, mail # user - Re: How is Data Indexed in HBase?

How is Data Indexed in HBase?

Bing Li 2012-02-22, 09:09

Dear all,

I wonder how data in HBase is indexed? Now Solr is used in my system
because data is managed in inverted index. Such an index is suitable to
retrieve unstructured and huge amount of data. How does HBase deal with the
issue? May I replaced Solr with HBase?

Thanks so much!

Best regards,
Bing

Re: How is Data Indexed in HBase?

Doug Meil 2012-02-22, 15:22

You probably want to start with reading about the StoreFiles and how Hbase
stores data internally.

http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#regions.arch

On 2/22/12 4:09 AM, "Bing Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>I wonder how data in HBase is indexed? Now Solr is used in my system
>because data is managed in inverted index. Such an index is suitable to
>retrieve unstructured and huge amount of data. How does HBase deal with
>the
>issue? May I replaced Solr with HBase?
>
>Thanks so much!
>
>Best regards,
>Bing

Re: How is Data Indexed in HBase?

Jacques 2012-02-22, 17:17

It is highly unlikely that you could replace Solr with HBase. They're
really apples and oranges.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Bing Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I wonder how data in HBase is indexed? Now Solr is used in my system
> because data is managed in inverted index. Such an index is suitable to
> retrieve unstructured and huge amount of data. How does HBase deal with the
> issue? May I replaced Solr with HBase?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Best regards,
> Bing
>

Re: How is Data Indexed in HBase?

Brock Noland 2012-02-22, 17:20

Agreed, you could use Solr on top of HBase though.

https://github.com/Photobucket/Solbase

Brock

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is highly unlikely that you could replace Solr with HBase. They're
> really apples and oranges.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Bing Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I wonder how data in HBase is indexed? Now Solr is used in my system
>> because data is managed in inverted index. Such an index is suitable to
>> retrieve unstructured and huge amount of data. How does HBase deal with the
>> issue? May I replaced Solr with HBase?
>>
>> Thanks so much!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bing
>>

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