On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Geoff Hendrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I investigated hbasene. The source download relies on ".mapred" api, not
> ".mapreduce". It's maven pom doesn't build without a lot of hacking and
> fixing unresolved dependencies, and even when I was able to build the
> source, I am still out of luck because of the mapred vs mapreduce issue.
>

The latter is usually a minor issue (I haven't tried it; I'm just
speaking from experience converting MR jobs to use APIs from new
package).  Are you finding it otherwise Geoff?


> Is my only recourse to make a custom build of 0.89 which mixes source
> from the 0.26 release of HBase in with the 0.89 release? I would have
> thought IndexOutputFormat was an important feature to move forward in
> the trunk.
>

Why do you have to touch HBase at all Geoff?  Can you not just make a
mapreduce job of adjusted IndexOutputFormat bundling lucene and have
it run against HBase APIs?

Regards it being an important feature for core HBase, for sure its a
nice-to-have, but we've been trying to jettison all but core from
HBase and have add-ons live elsewhere.  We found that carrying along
all contribs and additions with their different rates of development
(and with flux in developer interest in keeping up the add-on) proved
a drag on core development.

St.Ack

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