>From my understand thrift clients are never thread safe as they manipulate the underlying protocol. This is true with Cassandra's thrift client for sure.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Francis Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > We are trying to implement caching of HiveMetastoreClient in HCatalog. And > we were wondering if HiveMetastoreClient is threadsafe? Looking at the code > it's a relatively thin wrapper around the thrift client. So it looks like > it all depends on wether a thrift client is meant to be threadsafe or not? > Which I don't know the answer to either. If a Hive or Thrift guru could shed > some light on this that'd be great. > > -Francis > > >
