On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:44 PM, 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? >
How much is 'too much time' Cristofer? Do you want a standalone cluster at all? St.Ack P.S. If digging in this area, you might find the blog post by the sematextians of use: http://blog.sematext.com/2010/08/30/hbase-case-study-using-hbasetestingutility-for-local-testing-development/
