Cassandra mates with Hadoop
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:24 pm
The Brangelina of Big Data: Cassandra mates with Hadoop
This could be a very interesting mix if you were looking at going through TB's of data a day... or an hour...Think of it as the Brangelina of Big Data.
DataStax, an open-source startup based in Northern California, has combined Cassandra, the distributed database developed at Facebook, with Hadoop, the epic-number-crunching platform based on Google's backend infrastructure. Known as "Brisk", this Big Data mashup was unveiled on Wednesday, with DataStax promising to open source the platform under an Apache licence within 45 days.
The idea is to offer a single platform that provides both a low-latency database for "realtime" web-scale applications and the sort of heavy data analysis you get with Hadoop. "One thing we're hearing from [enterprises] is that they need the complete Big Data picture, from realtime low-latency applications through to tools that analyze data – and the ability to use those tools to actually feed data back into applications," DataStax vice president of products Ben Werther tells The Register.
"We're giving them a platform that offers both low-latency and analytics in one."
