C5: A simple, reliable, scalable, open-source database

by setuporg • 12 years ago

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setuporg• 12 years ago

C5 is a simple, reliable, and scalable open source database which improves on HBase in every way. It is optimized for fast failover and can be used in production for both OLTP and analytics, eliminating a whole class of pipelines and bottlenecks. It is the first HBase successor, fully HBase API-compatible, developed from the ground up to run on the cloud installs with very easy to no maintenance and tuning. Failover happens instantly, which makes it a viable option for APIs, and all the data is accessible to Hadoop analytics flows right away. C5 takes full advantage of high speed IO (SSDs) and is simple to grow to hundreds and thousands of nodes as needed.

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

So nice to see a plan come together.

afaqurk• 12 years ago

The video mentions that it is 10 cents per GB per month. But the price is listed at $1/GB/month.

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

Oh dear sorry for the oversite. It's a dime. We will update it now.

ryanobjc3• 12 years ago

Fixed, thanks for the early bug report!

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

all fixed

hiroprot5• 12 years ago

So, where is the opensource version for this?

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

Great question. We will be releasing in under a month. There's still a couple of things we want to roll out so expect a bit of trickle for a month.

SEJeff• 12 years ago

Please include a Dockerfile. Bonus points for trusted builds

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

It will start out on github.

ryanobjc3• 12 years ago

keep an eye on http://github.com/ohmdata

notacoward• 12 years ago

MIA, and until it actually happens they shouldn't be using "open source" in their pitch.

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

Fair enough. We actually thought we were going to open source half of it last week. I assure you it will be open.

hiroprot5• 12 years ago

I love the premise of this, but consider me sceptical...those are some pretty bold claims for a brand-new database.

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

It's not from scratch. We have about 100k lines of HBase in there. I am sorry if that isn't clear.

hiroprot5• 12 years ago

I got that part, but a decent part of it is new and unproven, right?

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

But yes, please be skeptical. I can't wait for you to see the tests though. I bet you will fall in love.

phacops• 12 years ago

Is the 10c/GB/month a hosted-mode fee, or the commercial license when running the open source package yourself?

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

hosted mode. All the software will be open source. We will be on top of Amazon.

mattbillenstein• 12 years ago

So this is an improved hbase or something completely different? If the plan is for analytic workloads, what is the query language?

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

That's a great way to think about it. We want to push it back into the HBase ecosystem as well. Users can use tools like presto and impala to access the data via sql.

hiroprot5• 12 years ago

I think a good way to explain the project would be to outline how it improves upon vanilla HBase. I'd be interested in seeing the differences.

fizx• 12 years ago

Congrats on the launch!

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

dawwww!

dkroy2• 12 years ago

Can I sign up without having to call or email?

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

Soon it will be completely open source. In less than a month.

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

Sorry what exactly is the question?

rainer89• 12 years ago

I think he got the same question that i , we want to test the database and begin to do fun stuff with that but we dont want to call or write email (not that i a problem with that), is just curiosity if going to have a botton "sing in" or "try" ?

triplesec• 12 years ago

So, someone managed to make a Hadoop that doesn't suck, then?

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

We benefited greatly from Hadoop and it's legacy. Hadoop solves hard problems for some of the biggest companies. On the other hand it is very complicated to install and manage. Additionally HBase still has a ways to go with bindings in other languages and availability. By fixing this it should expand the set of use cases that Hadoop can be applied to.

We think we have built an enhanced version of the bottom of Hadoop that is a pleasure to run. We hope you find it pleasurable as well.

cgio• 12 years ago

In the investors section I see Roger Bramford. Is he still with Oracle as per the short bio linked?

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

Yes he is. We chatted today in fact. In my humble opinion, he's the biggest badass there.

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

And no this is not a sekrit oracle project. He just knows a winner.

webmaven• 12 years ago

So, no charges for bandwidth in or out of the hosted version?

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

That's the plan. We want to include it in the base price.

WorldWideWayne• 12 years ago

OhmData is the simplest distributed database ever created.
C5 is a next generation distributed NoSQL system.

Is it called OhmData or C5?

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

Lol good point. I'll tell our guy. C5 is the DB OhmData is the company.

alexnewman24• 12 years ago

Where's the first one. I heard Ohmdata's c5 is the simplist...

C5: A simple, reliable, scalable, open-source database

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