Re: save video with hbase

[Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>]

Why would you use HBase for that?

Regarding your two questions:

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:17 PM, xtliwen <xt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> When the client visit the video of a website through my website, it will be transcoded with our video codec server.As the time goes on,the quantities of the videos is quite large. Usuallly, a video can be tanscoded to serveral levels,so a original video is corresponding to multi transcoded videos . Now,we plan to record the video files with hbase. There are two problems with the hbase:
> 1 the video file is too large (100M avg.)

Why do you say that? The client side limit by default is -1
(disabled), and if there's any other limit they are just set
arbitrarily.

> 2 we require the transcoded video must can be read while it was been writing

That sounds like an application-level problem, not HBase.

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> So,can anybody give some suggestions, Thanks.
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> 2011-10-31
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> regards
> xtliwen
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