<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/01/yahoos-open-source-omid-project-brings-scalable-transaction-processing-to-hbase/">Yahoo’s Open Source Omid Project Brings Scalable Transaction Processing To HBase</a>: <p><i>By <a title="Posts by Frederic Lardinois" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/frederic-lardinois/" target="_blank">Frederic Lardinois</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fredericl" target="_blank">@fredericl</a>)</i><br/></p><hr><p>A while back, Yahoo quietly made the code to Omid, an open source transaction processing system for the <a href="http://hbase.apache.org/" target="_blank">Apache HBase</a> Hadoop big data store, <a href="https://github.com/yahoo/omid" target="_blank">available on GitHub</a>. This is the same software the company uses internally to help it power thousands of search transactions per second.</p><p>Until now, Yahoo remained rather subdued about this project, but with the <a href="http://yahoohadoop.tumblr.com/post/129089878751/introducing-omid-transaction-processing-for?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma" target="_blank">latest update</a>, launching today, it feels the service is now robust enough for wider deployment and has proven its ability to scale. It’s also 10 times faster than the first version the company released to the public.</p><p>Yahoo’s director of engineering Ralph Rabbat and senior director of product management Sumeet Singh told me earlier this week that the company hopes that other platforms in the Hadoop and HBase ecosystem will adopt Omid.</p>