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For our Advanced Distributed Systems (CS 525) final project Onur and I are working on a system we’ve named Gelato. I will have more details about it in a month when we (hopefully) open source our code. Our tech stack for Gelato looks something like this:

• Apache HBase for persistence of data
• Apache ZooKeeper for service discovery, load balancing, group membership, and failure detection
• RabbitMQ for internal publish-subscribe
• Apache Thrift for RPC
• Fabric for deploying our code

We were deciding between Cassandra and HBase and decided to use HBase because HBase has a native Java API and is pretty easy to use on AWS thanks to AWS EMR.

The languages we are using are:

• Java for the core Gelato system
• Python to gather performance metrics

Gelato is pretty the most complex system I’ve built during college and I’m really excited to see how it finally turns out.