Not your dad’s old HBase

I've just updated the location, we are meeting at the Zendesk Offices, 488 Bourke Street

Hi everyone, we are back after a long (long) break, with some pretty exciting announcements, and a great talk:

Not your dad’s old HBase
Gilad Moscovitch
Yaniv Rodenski

HBase is one of the oldest NoSQL databases out there. Designed based on Google’s bigtable, HBase has been a part of the Hadoop ecosystem for a decade. HBase is mostly known as a column family database with Java and thrift APIs, but has additional layers expanding its capabilities. In the past 3 years we have been working on a petabyte scale project leveraging two such layers: Apache Phoenix, which gives HBase powerful SQL capabilities, and TitanDB, a graph database.

In this talk we will have a quick intro to HBase, take a look at both layers, and discuss how we used them in our project.