Re: Question on production readiness, deployment, data of BookKeeper / Hedwig

2010-10-08 Thread Jake Mannix
Hi Ben, To follow up with this question, which seems to be asking primarily about Hedwig (and I guess the answer is: it's not in production yet, anywhere), with one more about Bookkeeper: is BookKeeper used in production as a WAL (or for any other use) anywhere? If so, for what uses? Any

Re: Question on production readiness, deployment, data of BookKeeper / Hedwig

2010-10-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
your guess is correct :) for bookkeeper and hedwig we released early to do the development in public. originally we developed bookkeeper as a distributed write ahead log for the NameNode in HDFS, but while we were able to get a proof of concept going, the structure of the code of the NameNode

Re: Question on production readiness, deployment, data of BookKeeper / Hedwig

2010-10-07 Thread Benjamin Reed
hi amit, sorry for the late response. this week has been crunch time for a lot of different things. here are your answers: production 1. it is still in prototype phase. we are evaluating different aspects, but there is still some work to do to make it production ready. we also need to

Question on production readiness, deployment, data of BookKeeper / Hedwig

2010-10-05 Thread amit jaiswal
Hi, In Hedwig talk (http://vimeo.com/13282102), it was mentioned that the primary use case for Hedwig comes from the distributed key-value store PNUTS in Yahoo!, but also said that the work is new. Could you please about the following: Production readiness / Deployment 1. What is the