Researchers Create Database-Hadoop Hybrid

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."

MySQL?

[trisweb]

No offense to the creators (well, maybe some offense) but why the heck would you want to put MySQL in where PostgreSQL already was? That's like taking out your star quarterback and putting in, well, me!

Re:Please stop

[gandhi_2]

I am a metaphor for war.

You are for metaphor war.

Re:If it works as described it will be VERY import

[gandhi_2]

I can't say I'm looking forward to bigger, faster, shit-covered platters...but hey. Who am I to stand in the way of progress?

Re:Please stop

[Hoi Polloi]

This thread is uber-dumb.

Cartman would say it was "hella-stupid".