On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:22 PM, S Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can someone explain, at a high level, how the hbase service is exposed? > > Is it a Java socket or? (sorry not that well versed in this) > > > Does anyone have any numbers on the performance differences between using > the native java driver (that presumably connects 'directly') versus the > Thrift route? > Basically when you use the thrift API, you're conversing with a thrift server that is written using the Java API. In other words, it's similar to some RPC mechanism, which means you'll introduce some overhead over using directly the Java API. I don't have numbers at hand unfortunately. -- - Sylvain http://www.defuze.org http://twitter.com/lawouach
