LWN.net Logo

Hibari "big data" database released

Hibari "big data" database released

Posted Jul 28, 2010 12:13 UTC (Wed) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588)
Parent article: Hibari "big data" database released

My first question would be, "How does this compare to Riak?" which is a nosql database which is written in erlang and has been around for awhile now.

https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak


(Log in to post comments)

Hibari "big data" database released

Posted Jul 29, 2010 17:13 UTC (Thu) by dmag (subscriber, #17775) [Link]

> How does this compare to Riak?

Riak is AP of CAP, where as Hibari appears to be CA. Both are KV-stores, which means you can't query by values, only keys. (Although Riak has map-reduce, wherein you process *all* key/values.)

(One thing to be careful of: Riak has multiple storage backends, so benchmark results can differ wildly depending on which you choose.)

> a nosql database which is written in erlang and has been around for awhile now

That also describes CouchDB, for what it's worth. (Not much. Organizing database projects by language isn't useful. Writing something in Erlang doesn't make it scalable, distributed or multi-core any more that writing it in C.)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds