On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney <[email protected]> wrote: > In the meantime, feel free to maybe say a bit about yourself, what brought > you to Gora etc.
Now that Accumulo is publicly available, there are lots things it would be nice to integrate Accumulo with like Gora, Data Nucleus, Spring Data, HCatalog, Pig, Hive, etc. I wanted experiment with writing an adapter for one of these. I looked at Gora and liked its straight forward mapping to a column store like HBase, Accumulo, and Cassandra. Also I am interested in tools that makes developers lives easier and allow them more flexibility (like the ability to more easily move their code between different data stores). Gora is one tool that does this. After I wrote the Accumulo backend, I took one of the Accumulo test suites and wrote it using Gora. I did this for a few reasons. I wanted to gain perspective as a Gora user and I wanted to test the Gora Accumulo data store at scale. Since I started off developing for Gora instead of using it, I was happy when I found that using Gora was a pleasant experience. The test suite written against Gora was less code than the one written against Accumulo and easier to understand. One thing that made it shorter was no parsing/serialization code in the Gora version. Also the test suite can now easily be used against other data stores which is really cool. Keith
