See http://zhihongyu.blogspot.com/2011/04/managing-connections-in-hbase-090-and.htmlfor your first question.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Ferdy Galema <ferdy.gal...@kalooga.com>wrote: > I understand HTable is not thread-safe. How about > HConnectionImplementation? I presume it is thread-safe, because otherwise > creating a HTable for each thread will only work when each thread uses it's > own Configuration. (Since Configuration is mapped to a > HConnectionImplementation). So, how does it exactly achieve thread-safety? > For example, will N threads result in N zookeeper connections? > > Secondly, are there any plans to improve HTable thread-safety / efficiency? > I'm aware of asynchbase, but I think it would be very nice to have an > efficient implementation out of the box. > > Ferdy. >