Lars George
Lars George has been involved with HBase since 2007, and became a full HBase committer in 2009. He has spoken at various Hadoop User Group meetings, as well as large conferences such as FOSDEM in Brussels. He also started the Munich OpenHUG meetings. He now works for Cloudera to support Hadoop and HBase in and around Europe through technical support, consulting work, and training.

HBase: The Definitive Guide HBase: The Definitive Guide
by Lars George
September 2011
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

Webcast: HBase Schema Design - Things you need to know
October 14, 2011
When designing schemas for HBase, be it from scratch or porting an existing application over from a relational database for example, there are a set of architectural constraints that a user should be aware of to avoid common pitfalls. This session...

Webcast: HBase Coprocessors - Deploy shared functionality directly on the cluster
November 04, 2011
The newly added feature of Coprocessors within HBase allows the application designer to move functionality closer to where the data resides. While this sounds like Stored Procedures as known in the RDBMS realm, they have a different set of properties...

Webcast: Choosing Hardware for Hadoop
August 15, 2012
With the rise of big data problems comes a need for new solutions. One is Hadoop, which implements two very interesting technologies used at Google: a file system, and a processing framework, both tailor-made for commodity hardware. Large companies...

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