On 08/12/2010 08:01 AM, Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
Hey Jeff,
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:40:29 -0700 Jeff Hammerbacher wrote:
You also mention that your app will be accessing data stored in HBase.
There's a Python client for the Avro HBase gateway at
http://github.com/hammer/pyhbase. If you try it out, let me know how it
goes.
What's the difference between Avro and Thrift? Are there any specific
reasons to prefer one of the other?
I tried to find some documentation about Avro, but it seems that this is
a quite new project.
best wishes,
Björn
This blog post is a good intro:
http://www.searchenginecaffe.com/2009/07/hadoop-data-serialization-battle.html
Avro is going to be supported natively in Hadoop going forward, so if
you're on the fence, I'd choose Avro.
I've been using Avro for about a month now (just for serialization, not
RPC) and I've been pretty happy with it.
HTH,
DR
