Red Hat正考慮發(fā)力NoSQL/Hadoop
前兩天InternetNews.com對(duì)Red Hat 的 CEO Jim Whitehurst 進(jìn)行了一次訪談,期間問(wèn)到了一個(gè)問(wèn)題“Is Red Hat Interested in the Database Market?”(Red Hat是否有意涉足數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)市場(chǎng)?)Whitehurst 的回答是肯定的,并且表示其涉足的話,會(huì)是在NoSQL領(lǐng)域,以下是其原話:
“When I say I don’t want to be a database company, I’m saying that I don’t want to be a SQL database company,” Whitehurst said.
我說(shuō)我們不想成為一個(gè)數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)公司的時(shí)候,我指的是不想成為一個(gè)SQL數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)公司。
為了更明確他的想法,他又補(bǔ)充說(shuō):
“But we would be very interested in a NoSQL type database or Hadoop type thing,” Whitehurst said. “Those are interesting as they represent net new.”
但是我們對(duì)NoSQL數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù),或者說(shuō)是Hadoop相關(guān)的東西非常感興趣,因?yàn)樗麄兇碇粋€(gè)新的技術(shù)時(shí)代。
其實(shí)早在去年五月份Red Hat官方就透露過(guò)這樣的想法:
“We have consistently noted that the database remains a missing layer in Red Hat’s software stack… and would see advantages in adding an open source NoSQL database to its portfolio to target MySQL users.”
我們已經(jīng)意識(shí)到在我們的整個(gè)產(chǎn)品鏈中數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)是缺失的重要一環(huán),我們相信為MySQL的用戶帶來(lái)一款開(kāi)源的NoSQL數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)會(huì)是一件很不錯(cuò)的事。
其實(shí)在之前的OpenShift PaaS中,Red Hat 就已經(jīng)對(duì)MongoDB和Membase有所支持,估計(jì)在后續(xù)對(duì)NoSQL的選擇中,這兩者將會(huì)有一定的優(yōu)勢(shì)。而在Hadoop上面,與Cloudera、Hortonworks的合作都有相當(dāng)大的可能,或者是DataStax這樣Cassandra和Hadoop都支持的提供商也可能會(huì)是一個(gè)比較好的選擇。
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