> It would be nice to support pluggable block index > implementations.
+1 Perhaps we do this in the scope of HFile "v2"? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3857 - Andy --- On Thu, 6/2/11, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Lucene's FST for the block index > To: dev@hbase.apache.org > Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 9:20 AM > Currently BlockIndex is an inner > class of HFile. > It would be nice to support pluggable block index > implementations. > > FYI > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Jason Rutherglen <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Lucene has a compact FST (Finite State Transducer) > that's used for the > > sorted terms index. I think this is the same > type of functionality as > > the HBase block index, eg, a sorted index of row > ids? The FST is more > > compact keeping every Nth row id in RAM. Does > the HFile format allow > > pluggable block index implementations? > > > > I posted this to Jira issues however that's probably > not the best place. > > >
