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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-1015:
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bq. I don't think the thrift core makes sense anymore, considering protobuf.
I would agree. The embedded thrift servers in the regionservers were an
experiment at FB that they've backed away from. THRIFT-1620 is open with no
implementation available.
bq. I think an HBase client library implemented in C is a mandatory feature for
a database approaching 1.0 release.
The PB work is not finished.
The scope of building a C client is not just the transport, it's also
duplicating or replacing all of the functionality of the fat Java client.
Various discussions I have had about "native client" usually end with the
notion of a Grand Unified Client Project: lighter weight async client, perhaps
asynchbase itself or in the mold of it, talking PB to the cluster, with a sync
API layered on top. It might be straightforward to build a C++ analogue to
asynchbase with std::async (don't know enough about C++11 to say for sure).
> pure C and C++ client libraries
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>
> Key: HBASE-1015
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1015
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Client
> Affects Versions: 0.20.6
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
> Priority: Minor
>
> If via HBASE-794 first class support for talking via Thrift directly to
> HMaster and HRS is available, then pure C and C++ client libraries are
> possible.
> The C client library would wrap a Thrift core.
> The C++ client library can provide a class hierarchy quite close to
> o.a.h.h.client and, ideally, identical semantics. It should be just a
> wrapper around the C API, for economy.
> Internally to my employer there is a lot of resistance to HBase because many
> dev teams have a strong C/C++ bias. The real issue however is really client
> side integration, not a fundamental objection. (What runs server side and how
> it is managed is a secondary consideration.)
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