Based on a ☞ job announcement, The Register ☞ writes that Apple is probably considering HBase for their iAds platform. Truth being told, the announcement talks about Hadoop and mentions HBase or Cassandra:

• Design and build scalable Hadoop based ETL infrastructure.
• Build modular components in the large volume data movement and management
• Mentor junior engineers in Hadoop based technologies
• Experience with high throughput and scaleable applications etc.
• Designing and implementing systems to processTerabytes to Petabytes of data using Hadoop.
• Extensive experience with MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, HBase Or Cassandra

☞ jobs.apple.com

Maybe it will be this person’s responsibility to come up with the HBase or Cassandra decision.

@clehene

Original title and link: Apple going Hadoop. Question is: HBase Or Cassandra? (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)

CouchDB got quite some press with the announcement of CouchOne Mobile^[1]. In the light of the changes in Apple policy^[2], I am wondering if the iDevices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) are next.

Anyway, I think there are additional ingredients to be added to the mix to make CouchOne Mobile see some traction:

1. becoming rock solid. It is in direct competition with tools like SQLite which are rock solid
2. there will be tons of applications that would require synchronization with remote servers. Remember, CouchDB strongest point is replication.
3. there will be some good and cheap CouchDB hosting providers. When you sell $1.99 apps, you’ll not pay tons of dollars for hosting.

Update: while this comment from ☞ Damien Katz about CounchDB coming to iOS is pre Apple policy change, it is a good sign that Couchio CouchOne is trying to get it working as soon as possible:

Aaron Miller and I got Erlang booting up on iOS. CouchDB coming to an Apple device near you.

Update: Six month later iOS Mobile Couchbase is here.

Original title and link for this post: CouchDB for Android. iPhone Next? (published on the NoSQL blog: myNoSQL)