Edward J. Yoon's Blog

This year has been frantically busy for me. (My 2008 plan worked pretty well)

- My position changes have been made.
- I've been forming up the Hama/Heart project as a open source.
- New York local chapter of the Heart project was organized.

I believe that's a good start even if there is no result. This New Year's,

- I'll improve our projects.
- I've been thinking about taking a job in US next year.

And, I want my parents to be healthy during 2009. :-)

Aram said...

Does anyone know why Google does not use Bigtable for Gmail?

Rob Kohr said...

@aram

How do you know they don't?

Aram said...

@ Rob

I don't remember where I read it for the first time. But I asked
this question from Jeff Dean. He said maybe Gmail is older than bigtable.
Which I don't think is the real reason, because Orkut is even older than
Gmail, and it does use bigtable. He also mentioned it could be because of
the size of Gmail, not a suprise answer for me.

-- http://glinden.blogspot.com/2005/09/googles-bigtable.html

Personally, I think they use bigtable for gmail but, they don't answer because email is a delicate problem, there is no need to highlighting.

Recently, I'm considering to store the large-scale webmail data on the Hbase. I expect to be able to solve both real-time and batch issues and cost-effective physical/human infra- resources management -- ROI and how spam/system sustaining impacts corporate revenue and pr…