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Inchul Song commented on HADOOP-1757:
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That's better. Thanks.
I'll change the HQL syntax accordingly.
I wanted this kind of explanation. It would be better
if the quite good explanation you've given here is also found
in the doc of BloomFilter or BloomFilterDescriptor.
> [hbase] Bloomfilters: single argument constructor, use enum for bloom filter
> types
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>
> Key: HADOOP-1757
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1757
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: contrib/hbase
> Affects Versions: 0.15.0
> Reporter: Jim Kellerman
> Assignee: Jim Kellerman
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.15.0
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 01:46 +0900, Inchul Song wrote:
> Hi all,
> >
> > When I create a column for an Hbase table, I have to create
> > an instance of the HColumnDescriptor class, and
> > pass over an instance of the BloomFilterDescriptor class
> > describing which bloom filter to use to the constructor
> > of the HColumnDescriptor class.
> >
> > But there is some inconvenience in using the BloomFilterDescriptor class:
> >
> > 1. Non-existence of a single argument constructor
> >
> > When creating an instance of the BloomFilterDescriptor class,
> > I need to specify some options for the newly created bloom filter.
> > There are three options: type, vectorSize, nbHash.
> > I know that these options are important for
> > the internal working of a bloom filter, but I cannot help
> > but confess that I don't really understand
> > what vectorSize and hbHash mean and how these two options
> > affect the way in which a bloom filter works.
> > As the user of a bloom filter, the only thing I am concerned with is
> > the first option, the name of the bloom filter that I'd like to
> > use for the column, and it would be nice if the other options
> > are automatically decided and filled in.
> >
> > So it would be nice if there is a constructor
> > with a single 'type' argument in the BloomFilterDescriptor class.
> >
> > 2. Bloom filter types are defined as integers
> >
> > Bloom filter types are not in an enumeration class.
> > Thus, when filling in the type option of the constructor
> > from a String value, I always have to write some translation
> > code from the string value to one of the integer values
> > representing bloom filter types.
> >
> > If there is an enumeration class containing bloom filter types,
> > I can utilize the valueOf method of the enumeration class
> > to do this tedious job.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Song
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