On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Matt Massie <m...@cloudera.com> wrote: > I like the idea of Avro as a TLP. > > Avro has appeal to groups outside of the Hadoop community even though Hadoop > will likely be our biggest "customer" for some time. Our release cycle and > decisions should be driven by this broader user community. The fact that > Avro is a subproject of Hadoop can imply that Avro is "Hadoop RPC" or that > it "requires" Hadoop or that it's only useful for huge datasets. I think > having Avro as a separate TLP would help disabuse people of those notions. > > There is a lot of buzz around Hadoop now and leaving could have a negative > effect on our visibility. However, I think we'll have no trouble generating > our own buzz. We can, for example, develop strong benchmarks that show we > beat other serialization/RPC systems in performance and announce it loudly. > We already have a generous Apache license. If we make Avro an easy drop-in > replacement for other systems, we'll likely see broad adoption. Lots of > happy Avro consumers == buzz.
If it works well for us, I'm not worried about being able to generate buzz. -ryan
