On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:20 PM, tsuna <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Jeff Whiting <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems like the only heavy part of the client would be the zookeeper >> interactions (forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong). > > ZooKeeper interactions are extremely simple for a client, that's not > where the heavy part is. All a client needs to do with ZooKeeper is > to find where the -ROOT- region is, period. In the client I wrote, > asynchbase, I don't even maintain an open connection to ZooKeeper, > because 99.99% of the time it's unnecessary. >
Our N is working on doing this for the hbase client: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5399 St.Ack
