Owen, Tajo also uses protobuf for rpc and default serialization means. Thank you for letting me know the worth experience. That lesson is very helpful to us too.
Best regards, Hyunsik On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Owen O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hadoop tried Avro for its RPC, but there were too many challenges. We > backed out to ProtoBuf, which has worked well for us. In ORC, I used > ProtoBuf for the metadata (and not the data) and it has also worked well > for that. > > -- Owen > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Henry Saputra <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi Hyunsik, thanks for revisiting this Avro switch discussion. I agree to > > punt this discussion into the future. > > Even now Hadoop uses protocol buffer for its RPC. > > > > I am ok to not open JIRA for it. I think once we have one or two good > > release then we could revisit this discussion again. > > > > Really appreciate for opening up discussion about this. > > > > > > - Henry > > > > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Hyunsik Choi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Dear Henry and folks, > > > > > > In TAJO-28 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAJO-28), there was > a > > > discussion of switching protocol buffers to another one. Henry's > > suggestion > > > is to switch protocol buffer to avro. At that time, I said that I'll > > create > > > jira issues for it. I'm sorry for late response. > > > > > > At the first time, I also +1ed for the switching. However, Tajo has > > heavily > > > used protocol buffers throughout the project. It will cause many > > overheads > > > for us. If you are ok, I would like to postpone this discussion. I > think > > > that there are many important issues to be solved right now. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Hyunsik > > > > > >
