All, I think getting YCSB to publish their artefacts to maven central is taking an unexpected amount of time. It seems they are having an infinite internal discussion [1], so I thought of a possible Plan B.
The plan would be to auto-provision the required YCSB jar by scripting the current manual process that I used. This will entail, downloading the latest YCSB or stable source, perform a local maven install, compile and run some tests. If the above suggestions make sense, then I can find some time and work on the implementation. Alternatively, if you have a better idea, please let me know. Please let me know what your thoughts are. [1] https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/issues/1340 Thank you. **Sheriffo Ceesay**