Hfile - Storefile

2010-09-01 Thread Himanshu Vashishtha
It will be great if anyone point out the difference in their functionality. What I understand is Storefile is made persistent in fs, compactions occurred on these (to me, its an equivalent of SSTable). Hfile is derived (evolved) from MapFile, giving access to faster random reads (as it uses index t

hfile - Storefile

2010-09-01 Thread Himanshu Vashishtha
It will be great if anyone can point out the difference in their functionality. What I understand is Storefile is made persistent in fs, compactions occurred on these (to me, its an equivalent of SSTable). Hfile is derived (evolved) from MapFile, giving access to faster random reads (as it uses ind

Re: Hfile - Storefile

2010-09-01 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
StoreFile is just a wrapper for HFile to add HBase-sugar on top of it. J-D On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Himanshu Vashishtha wrote: > It will be great if anyone point out the difference in their functionality. > What I understand is Storefile is made persistent in fs, compactions > occurred on

Re: hfile - Storefile

2010-09-01 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
Like I answered this morning to the same question: StoreFile is just a wrapper for HFile to add HBase-sugar on top of it. J-D On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Himanshu Vashishtha wrote: > It will be great if anyone can point out the difference in their > functionality. What I understand is Store

Re: hfile - Storefile

2010-09-01 Thread Himanshu Vashishtha
yeah! it got posted twice, unintentionally. Thanks for the answer, J-D. On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans wrote: > Like I answered this morning to the same question: > > StoreFile is just a wrapper for HFile to add HBase-sugar on top of it. > > J-D > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:59

Re: hfile - Storefile

2010-09-01 Thread Stack
This is my fault. I'm moderator on the list. Some stuff goes to moderator first and I'm not fast enough clearing them. Sorry about that J-D and Himanshu. St.Ack On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Himanshu Vashishtha wrote: > yeah! it got posted twice, unintentionally. Thanks for the answer, J-D.

RE: hfile - Storefile

2010-09-01 Thread Jonathan Gray
n Behalf Of Jean- > Daniel Cryans > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:04 PM > To: dev@hbase.apache.org > Subject: Re: hfile - Storefile > > Like I answered this morning to the same question: > > StoreFile is just a wrapper for HFile to add HBase-sugar on top of it. >