[jira] Commented: (HBASE-2055) Serialize WAL as Avro records

["Jeff Hammerbacher (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jeff Hammerbacher commented on HBASE-2055:
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Additional criteria: Avro has clients for reading and writing data files in several languages which will facilitate writing debugging and profiling utilities.

> Serialize WAL as Avro records
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-2055
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2055
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
>            Assignee: Andrew Purtell
>            Priority: Minor
>
> There was some advocacy of using Avro for serialization of HBase WAL records up on hbase-dev@. Idea is Hadoop core is getting away from Writables and Avro is the blessed replacement. 
> I think we have this criteria for its use:
> 1) Performance of writing Avro records is no worse than that for writing Writables into a SequenceFile.
> 2) Space consumed by Avro serialization is no worse than that of Writables
> 3) File format is amenable to appends (cannot require valid trailers, etc.)
> I'll put up a patch so we can try it out. 

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