[jira] [Commented] (ACCUMULO-2841) Arbitrary namespace and table metadata tags

["Christopher Tubbs (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-2841:
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After some thought (really belated), I think the ability to watch tags does trump the size concerns I had, and the ZK solution is probably a better one. Maybe just allow {{table.custom.\*}} as a per-table property prefix. We could probably add {{namespace.custom.\*}} also, but since you can apply {{table.\*}} to namespaces, I'm not sure that adds any value.

> Arbitrary namespace and table metadata tags
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-2841
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2841
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: client
>            Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
>            Assignee: John Vines
>              Labels: metadata, newbie
>             Fix For: 1.7.0
>
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> Application-level tags (tagName = tagValue) could be added to tables and namespaces, to allow applications to set application-level metadata about a namespace or table.
> Use cases include management for billing, administrator notes, date created, last ingest time, stats, information about the table's schema... or anything else an application might wish to use tags for.
> These tags could be stored in zookeeper, but are probably best stored in the metadata table (probably in a separate reserved area of the metadata table, ~tag) because they could be arbitrarily large and do not need to be persisted in memory.
> This feature would include new APIs to manipulate table / namespace metadata. Considerations should be made to ensure users have appropriate permissions to add tags to an object.
> This feature could be used to implement ACCUMULO-650.



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