A bit more context. Initially we had Facebook go off on 0.89-FB, which had to do (as we heard from them) with internal process considerations more than anything else. This has evolved into HydraBase. Later, OhmData revealed another fork. Probably this was about differentiating and providing product value. Now we have BigBase coming out soon, not 100% a fork per se but bigbase.org positions it as one might use HBase or BigBase.
Forks can be good things in OSS. GCC vs EGCS is one that comes to mind. All can benefit from multiple pathways for exploring ideas and improvements and cross-pollinate. Or, like GCC vs EGCS, a fork can become a new mainline. But I am curious if there might be something suboptimal going on with our community or dev process, as opposed to technical or product reasons for pursuing independent development and alternate codebases. > On Jul 7, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Out of curiosity Vladimir, did you feel like a fork of HBase was necessary > because of something about the Apache HBase project's process or community? > Or was it more of a licensing thing (noting you're not using ASL 2)? > > > On Jul 6, 2014, at 11:26 PM, Vladimir Rodionov <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>> >>>> Another issue is that we cache only blocks. So for workloads with random >>>> reads where the working set of blocks does not fit into the aggregate >>>> block cache HBase would need to load an entire block for each KV it wants >>>> to read. For those >>workloads we might want to consider a KV cache. (See >>>> also Vladimirs BigBase - https://github.com/VladRodionov/bigbase). >> >> Yes, the upcoming first release of BigBase (later this month) will have >> support for SSD cache in row (KV) cache and block cache. You will be able to >> use efficiently both : >> all server's RAM and available SSD disks (especially useful for those who >> run HBase on AWS EC2: all new instances come, by default, with local SSD >> disks.) >> >> Best regards, >> Vladimir Rodionov >> >> http://www.bigbase.org >> ________________________________________ >> From: lars hofhansl [[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 5:23 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: How Hbase achieves efficient random access? >> >> What Ted and Intea said. >> >> Are you asking out of interest or do you see performance issues? >> >> One "issue" is that the KeyValues (KVs) in the blocks is not indexed. KVs >> are variable length and hence once a block is loaded it needs to be searched >> linearly in order to find the KV (or determine its absence). >> It's on my list of things to investigate noting the start offsets of all KVs >> somewhere and hence allow a binary search the KVs. >> >> Since blocks are small (64k by default) it might not make a difference, but >> we should check. >> >> Another issue is that we cache only blocks. So for workloads with random >> reads where the working set of blocks does not fit into the aggregate block >> cache HBase would need to load an entire block for each KV it wants to read. >> For those workloads we might want to consider a KV cache. (See also >> Vladimirs BigBase - https://github.com/VladRodionov/bigbase). >> >> >> -- Lars >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Ted Yu <[email protected]> >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, July 4, 2014 7:39 AM >> Subject: Re: How Hbase achieves efficient random access? >> >> >> For description of HFile v2, see http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hfilev2 >> >> For block cache, see http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#block.cache >> >> In "HBase In Action", starting page 28, there is description for read path. >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Intae Kim <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Except memstore, blockcache, hfile count etc.. >>> >>> Simply stated, data are sorted in file called HFile (composed of blocks) >>> when client try to access data, hbase search proper block in file and load >>> block to check if the block has the data. >>> >>> See HFile Format in more details, (meta index, data index ...) >>> >>> Good Luck!! >>> >>> >>> 2014-07-04 17:30 GMT+09:00 Ted Yu <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Please take a look at http://hbase.apache.org/book/perf.reading.html >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>>> On Jul 4, 2014, at 12:22 AM, yl wu <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> HBase has sorted and indexed Hfile format, which enables fast lookup. >>>>> I am wondering is there any other feature help Hbase achieve efficient >>>>> random access? >>>>> I want to know the whole story, but I can't find any article talks >>> about >>>>> random access in HBase in high level. >>>>> >>>>> Can anyone help me resolve my confusion in this? >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Yanglin >> >> Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this message, >> including any attachments hereto, may be confidential and is intended to be >> read only by the individual or entity to whom this message is addressed. 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