HBase, what's it all about?

Come join us for a luncheon at Green Mountain Power headquarters located in Colchester, VT.

Note: meeting will be held in Bubble Conference room. Come into main entrance, someone will be available to direct you.

We are fortunate to have Jean-Marc Spaggiari (Solution Architect at Cloudera) travel from Montreal to share his knowledge about HBase and Spark.

The proposed agenda is as follows

• Intro to HBase

Quick introduction on HBase and where it comes from

• What it is

What is HBase? How is it different from RDBMS?

• How it works

Some of HBase internals and mechanisms

• Warnings

Based on previous sections, we will look at some bad HBase usages

• Features

Beside the key value storage, what else do we have in HBase

• When to use it

Not all use-cases are good for HBase. Based on HBase internals and design, a few use-cases will be reviewed to see when it is good to use HBase and when it's not

• What about Spark?

Where does Spark fit into the picture

• Demo

Let's do a very detailed step by step demo that everyone will be able to reproduce

• Questions

Food and beverages will be provided...