Neil, Thanks for that, I'll give it a look tomorrow!
Jamie On 7 July 2010 21:25, <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Jamie Cockrill <[email protected]> >> >> I've installed HBase from the Cloudera repository >> ... >> Various classes used in this example no longer appear to exist and >> having investigated a bit further, by comparing the API docs for >> 0.20.5 and 0.89.20100621, it looks like those packages were removed. > > Too funny. I was just about to post a very similar message. I also installed > CDH3 yesterday, with the intent of diving straight into secondary indexes. Our > prototype is only just now evolving to need them, so we hadn't used them yet. > And then after spending most of the day getting CDH3 up and running (I'm still > finding the cluster configuration a bit challenging) I was a bit surprised to > find they were gone. Shame on me for making the assumption they'd be there, > even > thinking they'd be improved, but it is what it is. > > I understand and appreciate Todd's explanation of the situation. Thanks for > the > info. I'm only just beginning to get my head wrapped around HBase myself, so > I'm > not yet comfortable working on those libraries myself. But I'd like to throw a > "me too" vote on getting secondary indexes back in the product ASAP. > > In the meantime, this morning I found, downloaded, and successfully ran the > sample code for this against 0.89: > > http://lilycms.org/lily/roadmap/sketchbook/hbaseindexes.html > > It ran with no changes, and looks reasonably straight-forward, so I'm going to > start playing with it more and see if it will work for our needs. Jamie, you > may > want to check it out. > > Neal >
