A Plan for the New Year

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. :-)

BigTable for GMail

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 productivity.

http://wiki.apache.org/hama/HbaseForWebMail

This is intended to explain and illustrate the concept of Hadoop/Hbase Based web-mail storage. There are three main parts:

- Stable & Reliable, Fault tolerant System
- Scalability
- Efficient & Cost-effective

These are simply inherited from the Hadoop/Hbase to web-mail storage.