Sweet. Let me comment over in the issue.... St.Ack
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Eric Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi HBasers, > > Just to inform you we are working at Apache James (Mail Server) on porting > our mailbox component [1] to HBase. We already support JPA, JCR and Maildir > implementations, and hopefully soon HBase. > > The "we" is Ioan Eugen Stan as student and Robert and Robert Burrell Donkin > and I as co-mentors. > > The JIRA is MAILBOX-44 and is still refers to Hadoop. The first idea was to > mimick out existing Maildir implementation and "simply" make it distributed > upon HDFS. > We recently came to the conclusion that HDFS was not suited for small > entities such as mails, and decided to go to HBase [2] > > We don't have much to show for now and still in the "design" phase, but "the > sooner, the better" you know we are working on that. > Don't hesitate to come with any idea/advice/suggestion/question that could > help us. > > Tks, > - Eric > > [1] http://james.apache.org/mailbox/ > [2] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAILBOX-44?focusedCommentId=13039086&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13039086 >
