Hi Cristofer, Are you using some specific configs with the MiniCluster?
We are using HBaseTestingUtility and have a reasonable test run time. You can check https://github.com/sonalgoyal/crux/blob/master/src/test/java/co/nubetech/crux/server/TestHBaseFacade.java Best Regards, Sonal Crux: Reporting for HBase <https://github.com/sonalgoyal/crux> Nube Technologies <http://www.nubetech.co> <http://in.linkedin.com/in/sonalgoyal> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Cristofer Weber < cristofer.we...@neogrid.com> wrote: > Hi there! > > After I started studying HBase, I've searched for open source projects > backed by HBase and I found Titan distributed graph database (you probably > heard about it). As soon as I read in their documentation that HBase > adapter is experimental and suboptimal (disclaimer here: > https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki/Using-HBase) I volunteered to > help improving this adapter and since then I made a few changes to improve > on running tests (reduced from hours to minutes) and also an improvement on > search feature. > > Now I'm trying to break the dependency on a pre-installed HBase for unit > tests and found miniCluster inside HBase tests, but minicluster demands too > much time to start and I don't know if tweaking on configs will improve > significantly. Is there a way to start a 'lightweight' instance, like > programatically starting a standalone instance? > > Thanks!! > > Best regards, > Cristofer
