Luke: Where you looking? St.Ack
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Luke Forehand <[email protected]> wrote: > Jamie Cockrill <jamie.cockr...@...> writes: > >> >> Luke, >> >> Apologies no, I've been rather sidelined by another issue at the >> moment. It's always the same, you get to playing with something >> interesting and you get pulled off to fight fires somewhere else. Once >> I get back on the case I'll have a look, however it someone did >> previously mention another library built by the guys building Lily >> that seems to aim to achieve the same goal. Reposted again here: >> >> http://lilycms.org/lily/roadmap/sketchbook/hbaseindexes.html >> >> I've not had time to look at it in detail, but it might be a good >> starting point to get something up and going quickly if that's what >> you're after. >> >> Ta, >> >> Jamie >> >> On 23 July 2010 16:58, Luke Forehand >> <luke.foreh...@...> wrote: >> > Jamie Cockrill <jamie.cockr...@...> writes: >> > > > Jamie, > > Thanks for the lead, I'm taking a look at the hbaseindex src now. I'm now > leaning toward writing and maintaining my own secondary index rather than use > the contrib IndexedTable stuff. With IndexedTable I don't have enough control > over the index row key construction, and that is important depending on how I > want to scan/filter the indexed table. Also, writing the index table from an > existing huge table with IndexedTableAdmin takes too long and would be better > suited as a Map Reduce job. These are just a few observations I've made > after a > somewhat cursory glance at the code. > > -Luke > >
