Hi Yifeng

> Maybe I can translate the book to Chinese, too.


> May I send you a greeting email from my personal address, and talk about your 
> plan via email at first?

Sure, 

--
Tatsuya Kawano (Mr.)
Tokyo, Japan


On Jan 26, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Yifeng Jiang <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi Tatsuya,
> 
> >This one is a commercial book from a Japanese publisher, so I'll do this by 
> >myself.
> 
> I see. I'll be looking forward to reading your book.
> 
> 
> 
> >I created a Jira entry to track this task:
> >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3391
> 
> Good job. I'm glad to work with you on the translation.
> Maybe I can translate the book to Chinese, too.
> 
> 
> > Are you working at Rakuten in Tokyo? Maybe we can meet at next Hadoop 
> > Source Code Reading at Rakuten
> Tower. Do you know this event?
> 
> I'm working for Rakuten at the Osaka branch.
> So I don't know if I can go to Tokyo to meet you at next Hadoop Source Code 
> Reading event.
> 
> May I send you a greeting email from my personal address, and talk about your 
> plan via email at first?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> On 01/26/2011 12:34 PM, Tatsuya Kawano wrote:
>> Hi Yifeng,
>>> #4. Writing Japanese books and documents
>>> I am glad if I can work on this one with you.
>> Thanks for your offer. Let me explain a bit more about them.
>>>> -- Currently I'm authoring a book chapter about HBase for a Japanese NOSQL 
>>>> book
>> This one is a commercial book from a Japanese publisher, so I'll do this by 
>> myself.
>> 
>>>> -- I'll translate The Apache HBase Book to Japanese
>> This one comes with HBase, and I'm looking for some people (like you) to 
>> work with.
>> 
>> http://hbase.apache.org/book.html
>> 
>> I created a Jira entry to track this task:
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3391
>> 
>> 
>> Are you working at Rakuten in Tokyo? Maybe we can meet at next Hadoop Source 
>> Code Reading at Rakuten Tower. Do you know this event?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tatsuya
>> 
>> --
>> Tatsuya Kawano (Mr.)
>> Tokyo, Japan
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 25, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Yifeng Jiang<[email protected]>  
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> #4. Writing Japanese books and documents
>>> I am glad if I can work on this one with you.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 01/23/2011 10:18 AM, Tatsuya Kawano wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I wanted to let you know that I'm planning to contribute the following 
>>>> items to the HBase community. These are my spare time projects and I'll 
>>>> only be able to spend my time about 7 hours a week, so the progress will 
>>>> be very slow. I want some feedback from you guys to prioritize them. Also, 
>>>> if someone/team wants to work on them (with me or alone), I'll be happy to 
>>>> provide more details.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 1. RADOS integration
>>>> 
>>>> Run HBase not only on HDFS but also RADOS distributed object store (the 
>>>> lower layer of Ceph), so that the following options will become available 
>>>> to HBase users:
>>>> 
>>>> -- No SPOF (RADOS doesn't have the name node(s), but only ZK-like monitors 
>>>> and data nodes)
>>>> -- Instant backup of HBase tables (RADOS provides copy-on-write snapshot 
>>>> per object pool)
>>>> -- Extra durability option on WAL (RADOS can do both synchronous and 
>>>> asynchronous disk flush. HDFS doesn't have the earlier option)
>>>> 
>>>> Note:
>>>> RADOS object = HFile, WAL
>>>> object pool = group of HFiles or WAL
>>>> 
>>>> Current status: Design phase
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2. mapreduce.HFileInputFormat
>>>> 
>>>> MR library to read data directly from HFiles. (Roughly 2.5 times faster 
>>>> than TableInputFormat in my tests)
>>>> 
>>>> Current status: Completed a proof-of-concept prototype and measured 
>>>> performance.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 3. Enhance Get/Scan performance of RS
>>>> 
>>>> Add an hash code and a couple of flags to HFile at the flush time and 
>>>> change scanner implementation so that:
>>>> 
>>>> -- Get/Scan operations will get faster. (less key comparisons for 
>>>> reconstructing a row: O(h * c) ->   O(h).  [h = number of HFiles for the 
>>>> row, c = number of columns in an HFile])
>>>> -- The size of HFiles will become a bit smaller. (The flags will eliminate 
>>>> duplicate bytes in keys (row, column family and qualifier) from HFiles.)
>>>> 
>>>> Current status: Completed a proof-of-concept prototype and measured 
>>>> performance.
>>>> 
>>>> Detals:
>>>> https://github.com/tatsuya6502/hbase-mr-pof/
>>>> (I meant "poc" not "pof"...)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 4. Writing Japanese books and documents
>>>> 
>>>> -- Currently I'm authoring a book chapter about HBase for a Japanese NOSQL 
>>>> book
>>>> -- I'll translate The Apache HBase Book to Japanese
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Tatsuya Kawano (Mr.)
>>>> Tokyo, Japan
>>>> 
>>>> http://twitter.com/#!/tatsuya6502
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Yifeng Jiang
>>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Yifeng Jiang
> 

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