Something else to consider is after 0.90, or whenever the coprocessor framework
goes in, we will quite possibly build some kind of secondary indexing
capability as a coprocessor (see HBASE-2000 and sub-issues). This stuff won't
be backported, at least by us.
Best regards,
- Andy
Why is this email five sentences or less?
http://five.sentenc.es/
> From: George P. Stathis
> Subject: Re: A data loss scenario with a single region server going down
> To: user@hbase.apache.org, apurt...@apache.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 6:21 PM
>
> Thanks Andy, it's good to know there is an alternative. We'll
> attempt to go to 0.89 but if we can't get reliable indexing, we
> may have to go with this hadoop-append branch.
>
> -GS
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > While 0.89/0.90 is the way to go, there is also the
> > 0.20-append branch of Hadoop, in the hadoop-common repo,
> > which is better than nothing if using HBase 0.20:
> >
> > http://github.com/apache/hadoop-common/tree/branch-0.20-append
> >
> > There is also an amalgamation of 0.20-append and Yahoo
> > Secure Hadoop 0.20.104:
> >
> > http://github.com/apurtell/hadoop-common/tree/yahoo-hadoop-0.20.104-append
> >
> > I'd recommend the former unless you also want strong
> > authentication via Kerberos.
