> I also have concern about thrift gateway performance. > > Maybe I misunderstand but after I have a glance at the code of hbase thrift > stuff, I find out that there is only one thrift server running. All requests > are sent to the thrift server first and then forwarded to region servers. > > Is this a single failure point and a potential performance bottle neck?
You can run as many server as you want, we actually run 1 per region server in our production environment. Instead of running ./bin/hbase-daemon.sh start thrift, do the following to have 1 per RS: ./bin/hbase-daemons.sh start thrift It's really just a wrapper around the java client so it scales to how many nodes you have. J-D
