Implementation and evaluation of scalable data structure over HBase
Vamshi Krishna Konishetty, K. Arun Kumar, Kaladhar Voruganti, G. V. Prabhakara Rao · 2012
With the emergence of commodity hardware architectures and distributed open source software, users are performing analytics on more types of data. Web 2.0 applications like social networking sites have to deal with a lot of meta-data which in some cases can't fit into main memory. Currently, it is the responsibility of the application programmers to manually map these in-memory data structures into persistent storage systems like a database or file system. Ideally, the application programmers would like the underlying programming language/middle ware software to seamlessly manage the scalable data structures.