Mike Martin's Weekly Scientist: For Storing Web 3.0, HBase has the Edge

Monday, December 26, 2011

For Storing Web 3.0, HBase has the Edge

by Mike Martin for HPC Source

A storage system modeled after Google's Big Table has the edge in data management for cloud computing and next-gen Internet users, researchers claim.

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