That was my hope, yeah. Just idle thinking about what the state of play looks like for building such things right now.
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 6:02 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > It might get us part way to HBASE-4047? One of the first stumbling blocks > of an external coprocessor host is a high bandwidth channel between > processes. > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Heya folks, >> > >> > I've been reading about underlying technologies we might use to >> > improve coprocessors, with an eye towards a long term goal of better >> > isolating them. >> > >> > Today I started reading about Apache Arrow, which is a data format and >> > support library that has a focus on in-memory perf. (in particular >> > they claim their libs are all zero-copy.) >> > >> > Their main website[1] calls out Apache HBase as a use case and our >> > community as backers. I can't find anything in our code base though, >> > anyone know of any previous or ongoing efforts? >> > >> > >> > >> Some noise on instantiation but nought thereafter that I know of. >> >> What you thinking? We'd pass an external process blocks made by hbase for >> it to play with and then we'd persist whatever it gave us back? >> >> Thanks Sean, >> S (Apache Arrow PMC -- Smile). >> >> >> >> > [1]: http://arrow.apache.org/ >> > >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Andrew > > Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's > decrepit hands > - A23, Crosstalk
