Baidu, China’s
Leading Search Engine, Officially Sponsors Hypertable
Baidu
Selects Hypertable As Its Database Storage Technology
San Mateo, CA - January
22, 2009 – Baidu.com,
Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU),
the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced
that it has become an official sponsor of Hypertable, an open source, high performance
distributed data storage system, specifically designed to support web-scale
applications. As a sponsor of Hypertable, Baidu has committed
an industrious team of engineers, numerous servers, and support resources
to improve the quality and development of the open source technology.
"Baidu’s sponsorship
is key to our long term viability, which will benefit the greater open
source and developer community," said Doug Judd, Lead Architect
for Hypertable. "We are grateful for the quality contributions
made by the Baidu engineering team, and we look forward to continuing
the collaboration”
Hypertable, modeled after Google’s
Bigtable, is designed to manage the storage and processing of information
on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience to machine
and component failures. Hypertable is also sponsored by Zvents, a local event-based search
engine.
About Hypertable
Established in 2007, Hypertable
is an open source, high performance, scalable database designed to run
on a large cluster of commodity servers. Hypertable seeks to set
the open source standard for highly available, petabyte scale, database
systems. For more information, please see http://www.hypertable.org.
About Baidu
Baidu.com, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search provider. As a technology-based media company, Baidu aims to provide the best way for people to find information. In addition to serving individual Internet search users, Baidu provides an effective platform for businesses to reach potential customers. Baidu's ADSs, each of which represents one Class A ordinary share, are currently trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "BIDU."
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