Is HBase standalone viable for production?

[John Lilley <jo...@redpoint.net>]

We would like to build software using HBase and Phoenix without necessarily requiring the Hadoop ecosystem for smaller deployments and I have some basic concerns:
-- Is this a viable strategy? 
-- Does HBase/Pheonix standalone ever get used in production?  
-- Does this configuration get Tested?  
-- Is standalone HBase crippled in any significant way (other than redundancy and lack of scaling, obviously)

Thanks
John

Re: Is HBase standalone viable for production?

[Stack <st...@duboce.net>]

Sorry for the late response John.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:25 AM, John Lilley <jo...@redpoint.net>
wrote:

> We would like to build software using HBase and Phoenix without
> necessarily requiring the Hadoop ecosystem for smaller deployments and I
> have some basic concerns:
> -- Is this a viable strategy?
> -- Does HBase/Pheonix standalone ever get used in production?
>

I've heard of instances of HBase being used standalone in production
(caveat the 'obviously' clause you note later in this email) to do things
like  host an opentsdb instance on a medium sized cluster.


> -- Does this configuration get Tested?
>

Its how we do most of our unit testing and this is what most of us dev
against.


> -- Is standalone HBase crippled in any significant way (other than
> redundancy and lack of scaling, obviously)
>
>
Not that I know of.

St.Ack



> Thanks
> John
>