DBMS Musings: Announcing release of HadoopDB (longer version)

DBMS Musings: Announcing release of HadoopDB (longer version): "Our paper (that will be presented at the upcoming VLDB conference in the last week of August) shows that HadoopDB gets similar fault tolerance and ability to tolerate wild fluctuations in runtime node performance as Hadoop, while still approaching the performance of commercial parallel database systems (of course, it still gives up some performance due to the above mentioned tradeoffs)."