Thrift IPC as a first class component of HBase architecture
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Key: HBASE-794
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-794
Project: Hadoop HBase
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: thrift
Affects Versions: 0.3.0
Reporter: Andrew Purtell
Priority: Minor
This issue considers making Thrift IPC a first class component of HBase
architecture instead of its current form as a client.
Up on hbase-user@:
Andrew Purtell wrote:
> Something to think about is integration of Thrift with the master
> and regionserver themselves as a first class API. I think the
> Thrift (and also the REST) APIs as clients/front ends are proof-
> of-concepts more than anything else.
Stack wrote:
> Yes. Or just make it so all master/regionservers/client traffic is atop
> thrift -- or at least provide the option. This might not be that hard
> to do with the recent changes in hadoop serialization.
Leon Mergen wrote:
> However, as I was suspecting, the Thrift functionality does appear to be
> lacking compared to the native Java API -- since HBase is not a project
> where you want to force your users into a specific development environment,
> I do feel this should be fixed (especially since you cannot efficiently
> write locality aware map/reduce jobs with the Thrift API, unless you will be
> running a Thrift server on every single slave node in your cluster).
[...]
> I am not aware of the possibilities, especially since the HBase client
> connects to the region servers "under the hood", where in all the
> Thrift-like API's you have to manually setup communications. However, if no
> one picked up on this by then, I will be willing to look into it in a few
> months from now.
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