CPs are core extensions which act as pre/post hooks for events happening in the system. (like put, flush, compaction etc). This is not like cron jobs which can be scheduled. What action you want to run as cron job? Depending on that we can say whether HBase already allow some extensible/pluggable way around this.
-Anoop- On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Chandrashekhar Kotekar < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can you please help to see if there is any feature in HBase which will > satisfy following? > > 1) I need something which will be native to HBase and > > 2) Which will be able to execute some code at certain interval like daily > or weekly. > > Is there any HBase feature which satisfies these two conditions? > > I think coprocessors can execute some custom code but I am not sure if > coprocessors can be executed like cron jobs at certain intervals. Is it > possible? > > What are other mechanism to achieve this? I am looking for something which > is built-in into HBase itself and want to avoid dependency on external > mechanisms like cron jobs. > > Thanks, > Chandrash3khar Kotekar > Mobile - +91 8600011455 >
