We calculate all of our gravel and sand by the tonnage formula: Length (FT) x Width (FT) x Depth (IN), Divide by 200, Multiply by 1.103 = Metric Tonnes. Divide your Metric Tonnes by 1.3 (approximate weight per yard) to get your final yardage.
HBase is an open-source, distributed, column-oriented store modeled after Google's Bigtable. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop. It... (more)
HBase enables you to make use of Hadoop in a more traditional real-time fashion than would normally be possible with the Hadoop architecture. Processing and querying data is more complex with HBase, but you can combine the HBase structure with Hive to get an SQL-like interface.