Marcos makes a good point btw - Move from 1.x to 2.x also involves recompiling your existing MR apps (if they are already built with maven, thats not too much work to do). But other than a few obvious issues caught by the java compiler, the APIs remain the same.
Marcos - response inline: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Marcos Ortiz <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > So, it's means that, it's good to think to upgrade first all your > applications from > Hadoop 1.x to Hadoop 2.x if you want to keep updated with HBase? Yes, the MR jobs and other apps would need to be recompiled along with this. > Where I can find the Development roadmap for HBase 0.96? Am unsure of a formal location for this. Perhaps a dev can comment. I merely try to follow as many JIRAs as I can. I do know snapshots and protobuf RPCs are some of the major work being done for this version, but others would probably know better. <snip> -- Harsh J
