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Sean Busbey commented on ACCUMULO-2915:
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While I also don't want to clutter this ticket, I would like to point out that
we currently have *lots* of serialization libraries in use, almost all of which
could be replaced with Avro. Barring a major performance differentiator (on the
order of 2x+), such a change would greatly simplify our long term maintenance.
So if we do make any additional changes in serialization points, please make
them pluggable so that it's easier to do comparisons and consolidation.
> Avoid copying all Mutations when using a TabletServerBatchWriter
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> Key: ACCUMULO-2915
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2915
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: client
> Affects Versions: 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.7.0
> Reporter: William Slacum
> Fix For: 1.5.2, 1.6.1, 1.7.0
>
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> Currently in the TabletServerBatchWriter, the following behavior is exhibited:
> {code}
> // create a copy of mutation so that after this method returns the user
> // is free to reuse the mutation object, like calling readFields... this
> // is important for the case where a mutation is passed from map to reduce
> // to batch writer... the map reduce code will keep passing the same
> mutation
> // object into the reduce method
> m = new Mutation(m);
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> totalMemUsed += m.estimatedMemoryUsed();
> mutations.addMutation(table, m);
> totalAdded++;
> {code}
> This means all data is copied twice when writing. The logic for doing this is
> a bit dubious, since not all clients are going to be subject to MapReduce's
> use of references.
> It'd be good if we provided users with a way of signaling that there's no
> need to copy the mutation payload. [~elserj] suggested creating something
> akin to an {{ImmutableMutation}}, which help avoid some of the fears the
> batchwriter attempts to defend against.
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