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Re:NoSQL, Heroku, and You by akshayubhat on Monday September 13, 2010 @01:25AM (#1685661)
I completely agree, I find it weird whenever someone mentions Hadoop as as NOSQL. Hadoop is a Distributed Computing system. While HDFS is the Database.

Hadoop is more of an Distributed O.S. to run process and store data across multiple machines.

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Re:NoSQL, Heroku, and You by akshayubhat on Monday September 13, 2010 @05:16PM (#1688359)
err HBASE is the database and not HDFS.
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