Currently BlockIndex is an inner class of HFile. It would be nice to support pluggable block index implementations.
FYI On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Jason Rutherglen <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com > wrote: > Lucene has a compact FST (Finite State Transducer) that's used for the > sorted terms index. I think this is the same type of functionality as > the HBase block index, eg, a sorted index of row ids? The FST is more > compact keeping every Nth row id in RAM. Does the HFile format allow > pluggable block index implementations? > > I posted this to Jira issues however that's probably not the best place. >
