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Alan Gates commented on PIG-823:
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By lower level of metadata, we don't mean storing information already present
in the namenode. The difference is in the model perspective. Hive's metadata
model consists of tables and partitions, which is appropriate since it works
with SQL which presents a relational view to users. Our proposal is to
construct a metadata service that models directories and files. Map Reduce and
Pig Latin present a file based view to users, and thus this model is more
appropriate for those tools.
I met a couple of times with the Facebook team to discuss metadata, and our
desire to have a hierarchical model. They agreed that this did not fit with
the model they were using. We both agreed that any metadata service built
around the files should have an interface that their metadata service can
easily connect to, so that if a user wishes to use both they can do so without
needing to register metadata in both.
As for documentation, we're working on getting ready for external release. We
hope to post it in the next week or so.
> Hadoop Metadata Service
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>
> Key: PIG-823
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-823
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Olga Natkovich
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> This JIRA is created to track development of a metadata system for Hadoop.
> The goal of the system is to allow users and applications to register data
> stored on HDFS, search for the data available on HDFS, and associate metadata
> such as schema, statistics, etc. with a particular data unit or a data set
> stored on HDFS. The initial goal is to provide a fairly generic, low level
> abstraction that any user or application on HDFS can use to store an retrieve
> metadata. Over time a higher level abstractions closely tied to particular
> applications or tools can be developed.
> Over time, it would make sense for the metadata service to become a
> subproject within Hadoop. For now, the proposal is to make it a contrib to
> Pig since Pig SQL is likely to be the first user of the system.
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