Researchers Create Database-Hadoop Hybrid 122
ericatcw writes "'NoSQL' alternatives such as Hadoop and MapReduce may be uber-cheap and scalable, but they remain slower and clumsier to use than relational databases, say some. Now, researchers at Yale University have created a database-Hadoop hybrid that they say offers the best of both worlds: fast performance and the ability to scale out near-indefinitely. HadoopDB was built using PostGreSQL, though MySQL has also successfully been swapped in, according to Yale computer science professor Daniel Abadi, whose students built this prototype."
Please stop (Score:3, Interesting)
Uber-cheap is not a word, and it doesn't even make sense because you're saying it's "above cheap". Stop making up stupid shit.
If it works as described it will be VERY important (Score:2, Interesting)
If both the performance and scalability is as good as described I can safely say that this is the most important thing of the decade and not only for DBMS.
Handling large portions of data would get cheaper by an order of magnitude at least and scaling out would be way cheaper than now as well. I do hope it's true.