[big data] HBase for the Architect, by Nick Dimiduk

Apache HBase is the Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, big data store. Use Apache HBase when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware.

Nick is a committer on Apache HBase. He is based in Seattle, where he works for Hortonworks. He is also a coauthor of HBase in Action.

Talk and content are in english.