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Show HN: Haystack – Simple graph abstraction over Hbase
- jpetersonmn 12y agoConfusing as there is already a successful software named Haystack.
- gamapuna 12y agoI agree although,I was not aware of django-haystack at the time :)
- techspert 12y agoMan I love graph abstractions and database, but the inevitable questions comes - why HBase? Why not use a database that isn't nearly impossible to set up?
- gamapuna 12y agoThe primary motive for writing this was the fact that Hbase gives a fairly cheap(hdfs) backend storage and near linear scalability. Also most of the schema is encoded in row keys in such a way that hbase prefix scans can be leveraged to serve traversals across billions of nodes/edges.
- techspert 12y agoCheap in only the most puerile sense - the complexity and availability foists a particular cost on HBase that is just too high for most people.
- gamapuna 12y agoMaybe you are correct, Hbase is not easy to configure for sure but in terms of scalability (sheer number of row keys you can dump) there are not a lot of other components which can compete. Although theoretically this abstraction can live on top of any backend which has facilities for fast prefix scans.