Hadoop software provider Cloudera announced it will host HBaseCon 2012, a conference for HBase users and developers.
Cloudera has announced that it will host HBaseCon 2012, a new event for Apache HBase users.
Officials at
the Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of Hadoop software and services said it
will host HBaseCon 2012 in San Francisco May 22. HBaseCon will be the first
industry conference for Apache HBase users, contributors, administrators and
application developers.
HBase is an
open-source, nonrelational, distributed database modeled after Google's
BigTable and is written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software
Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of the Hadoop Distributed
Filesystem (HDFS), providing BigTable-like capabilities for Hadoop. It provides
a fault-tolerant way of storing large quantities of sparse data.
The HBaseCon
program committee is comprised of Apache HBase project management committee
(PMC) members who are developing a line-up of educational talks and workshops
that will share practical insights as well as illustrative use cases. Attendees
can look forward to general sessions in the morning and an afternoon comprised
of three tracks focused on: development, operations and applications for HBase.
Its going to
be a great day out for the community, said Michael Stack, engineer at
StumbleUpon and champion of the HBase community. Anyone with any kind of an
HBase itch at all whether apps, ops or dev should be sure to drop by. Our goals
with HBaseCon are to give the attendees a platform for connecting with their
peers and sharing experiences with this technology and to ultimately advance
the development of HBase.
The theme of
this first HBaseCon is Real-Time Your Hadoop, and the conference will be a
culmination of the best of the community and will include speakers and sponsors
from across the HBase landscape, Cloudera said. This event is all about
bringing together the great and inquiring minds that use HBase and strengthening
community support, Todd Lipcon, software engineer at Cloudera and Apache HBase
committer, said in a statement.
There is a
whole ecosystem being created around HBase, and the community is thriving and
incredibly involved, Lars George, solutions architect for Cloudera and author
of HBase: The Definitive Guide, saidin a statement. HBaseCon will bring
the community together in a collaborative and resourceful way, and I look
forward to being a part of this first conference.
Cloudera is
proud to continue its support of the Apache HBase community by hosting
HBaseCon, Charles Zedlewski, vice president of products at Cloudera, said in a
statement. Cloudera was the first company to provide an Apache Hadoop-based
distribution with support for HBase, and a great many Cloudera employees are
committers and contributors to the Apache HBase project. HBase has enjoyed
exceptional adoption in the enterprise as a platform for real-time big data
management and has become an essential element of any enterprise distribution.
Early-bird registration ends April 6 and
there is a discounted price for contributors. Sponsorship opportunities
are currently open, and more information can be found here.
HBaseCon will
take place May 22 at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco. For more
information go to: http://www.hbasecon.com/.
Cloudera will also offer a hands-on HBase training session after the
conference, May 23 and 24 for developers already familiar with Apache Hadoop.
Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.
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