What do you see as advantage Jeff? I suppose it'd be more compact that current Writable-based serialization. Current HBase WAL is a SequenceFile. We'd have to move away from that? Thanks, St.Ack
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Jeff Hammerbacher <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey, > > Inspired by Drizzle's use of Protobufs for their transaction log format > (e.g. > > http://jpipes.com/index.php?/archives/299-Drizzle-Replication-The-Transaction-Log.html > ): > how crazy would it be to try out Avro's binary format for the HBase WAL? > > Thanks, > Jeff >
