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Karl Wright commented on CONNECTORS-286:
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Jan: I will follow up with this to see if Warthog is replaceable by Gora.
Warthog is quite full-featured, and a simple columnar rendering is not going to
help is much. But more importantly, the whole way you use the database has to
change for an async key-value store. If it doesn't you are not significantly
better off, is my conclusion based on playing with Warthog locally.
It all boils down to how you build a high-performance queue using the
underlying abstraction. ManifoldCF uses btrees extensively here, especially
the ability to read index-ordered tuples from a table. If Gora does not
support that and is nevertheless a SQL-like paradigm, it's not possible to use
it for ManifoldCF. The alternative, which is to abandon all pretense of sql
constructs, means that we'd have to find an name/value store way of
representing a priority queue efficiently. This might be a fun project in its
own right - it's what I thought we'd do for ManifoldCF 2.0.
> Get ManifoldCF to run on top of a key/value store like Voldemort, for
> potential massive scalability improvements and speed gains
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> Key: CONNECTORS-286
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-286
> Project: ManifoldCF
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Framework core
> Reporter: Karl Wright
> Assignee: Karl Wright
> Fix For: ManifoldCF next
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> ManifoldCF's reliance on a relational database limits its throughput and
> scalability. I am now convinced it is possible to build all the structures
> we need within a distributed key-value store like Voldemort, which has the
> nice side effect of permitting massive scaling. I envision there will be
> several layers to this project, some of which may have broader utility in the
> open-source community at large:
> (1) An atomic serialization layer, which adds serialization capabilities to
> an non-transactional substrate;
> (2) A transaction layer, which uses atomic serialization to build a notion of
> light transactions;
> (3) A table and index layer, which defines SQL-like concepts of tables and
> btree indexes on top of the transaction layer, via a Java API;
> (4) A generic "database abstraction" layer, which is capable of representing
> both standard SQL databases as well as this NoSQL variant, so that ManifoldCF
> can support both models.
> This is obviously a major development task, and as such is not envisioned to
> be completed by the next standard release. Work will indeed need to be done
> in a branch.
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