Re: Constructing rowkeys and HBASE-7221

2013-01-17 Thread Doug Meil
Thanks Aaron! I will take a look at Kiji. And I think it underscores the need for some type of utility row rowkey building/parsing being available in HBase, because one of the first things folks tend to do is start building their own keybuilder utility when they start using Hbase (same

Re: Constructing rowkeys and HBASE-7221

2013-01-16 Thread Aaron Kimball
Hi Doug, This HBase feature is really interesting. It is quite related to some work we're doing on Kiji, our schema management project. In particular, we've also been focusing on building composite row keys correctly. One thing that jumped out at me in that ticket is that with a composition of

Re: Constructing rowkeys and HBASE-7221

2013-01-15 Thread Doug Meil
Hi there, well, this request for input fell like a thud. :-) But I think perhaps it has to do with the fact that I sent it to the dev-list instead of the user-list, as people that are actively writing HBase itself (devs) need less help with such keybuilding utilities. So one last request for