I'm all for this- though I'm curious to know the thoughts about maintenance and the design. Are we going to use thrift to tie the C++ client calls into the server-side components? Is that going to be maintained through a separate effort or is the plan to have the Accumulo community officially support it?
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Josh Elser <josh.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > It'd be really cool to see a C++ client -- fully implemented or not. The > increased performance via other languages like you said would be really > nice, but I'd also be curious to see how the server characteristics change > when the client might be sending data at a much faster rate. > > My C++ is super rusty these days, but I'd be happy to help out any devs > who can spearhead the effort :) > > > John R. Frank wrote: > >> Accumulo Developers, >> >> We're trying to boost throughput of non-Java tools with Accumulo. It >> seems that the lowest hanging fruit is to stop using the thrift proxy. Per >> discussion about Python and thrift proxy in the users list [1], I'm >> wondering if anyone is interested in helping with a native C++ client? >> There is a start on one here [2]. We could offer a bounty or maybe make a >> consulting project depending who is interested in it. >> >> We also looked at trying to run a separate thrift proxy for every worker >> thread or process. With many cores on a box, eg 32, it just doesn't seem >> practical to run that many proxies, even if they all run on a single JVM. >> We'd be glad to hear ideas on that front too. >> >> A potentially big benefit of making a proper C++ accumulo client is that >> it is straightforward to expose native interfaces in Python (via pyObject), >> Go [3], Ruby [4], and other languages. >> >> Thanks for any advice, pointers, interest. >> >> John >> >> >> 1-- http://www.mail-archive.com/user@accumulo.apache.org/msg03999.html >> >> 2-- >> https://github.com/phrocker/apeirogon >> >> 3-- http://golang.org/cmd/cgo/ >> >> 4-- https://www.amberbit.com/blog/2014/6/12/calling-c-cpp-from-ruby/ >> >> >> Sent from +1-617-899-2066 >> >
