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Nick Dimiduk commented on HBASE-1015:
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bq. 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.

Agreed; I mean the construction of a fully-featured client implementation 
available via C, not just transport. I've been out of C/C++ for a number of 
years, I'm entirely ignorant on C++11 so I cannot comment on implementation 
details. I do know that it's fairly common-place to wrap a C++ library with C 
bindings, so that decision can be left up to the implementor.
                
> pure C and C++ client libraries
> -------------------------------
>
>                 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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