Solomon Duskis created BEAM-2955: ------------------------------------ Summary: Create a Cloud Bigtable HBase connector Key: BEAM-2955 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2955 Project: Beam Issue Type: New Feature Components: sdk-java-gcp Reporter: Solomon Duskis Assignee: Chamikara Jayalath
The Cloud Bigtable (CBT) team has had a Dataflow connector maintained in a different repo for awhile. Recently, we did some reworking of the Cloud Bigtable client that would allow it to better coexist in the Beam ecosystem, and we also released a Beam connector in our repository that exposes HBase idioms rather than the Protobuf idioms of BigtableIO. More information about the customer experience of the HBase connector can be found here: [https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/dataflow-hbase]. The Beam repo is a much better place to house a Cloud Bigtable HBase connector. There are a couple of ways we can implement this new connector: # The CBT connector depends on artifacts in the io/hbase maven project. We can create a new extend HBaseIO for the purposes of CBT. We would have to add some features to HBaseIO to make that work (dynamic rebalancing, and a way for HBase and CBT's size estimation models to coexist) # The BigtableIO connector works well, and we can add an adapter layer on top of it. I have a proof of concept of it here: [https://github.com/sduskis/cloud-bigtable-client/tree/add_beam/bigtable-dataflow-parent/bigtable-hbase-beam]. # We can build a separate CBT HBase connector. I'm happy to do the work. I would appreciate some guidance and discussion about the right approach. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)