[jira] [Comment Edited] (ACCUMULO-802) table namespaces

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

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Christopher Tubbs edited comment on ACCUMULO-802 at 7/8/13 6:07 PM:
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New patch to implement those suggestions. I didn't add any new tests yet, but I fixed up the code as Christopher described and changed the behavior of creating and deleting namespaces as Keith suggested. 
                
      was (Author: shickey):
    New patch to implement those suggestions. I didn't add any new tests yet, but I fixed up the code as Chris described and changed the behavior of creating and deleting namespaces as Keith suggested. 
                  
> table namespaces
> ----------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-802
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-802
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Eric Newton
>            Assignee: Sean Hickey
>             Fix For: 1.6.0
>
>         Attachments: ACCUMULO-802.v0.patch, ACCUMULO-802.v1.patch, ACCUMULO-802.v2.patch, ACCUMULO-802.v3.patch, ACCUMULO-802.v4.patch, table-namespaces-README.txt, table-namespaces-README.v1.txt, table-namespaces-README.v2.txt
>
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> A large cluster is a valuable shared resource.  The current permission system and simple table naming structure does not allow for delegation of authority and safe partitioning within this shared resource.
> Use cases:
>  # create a namespace (like "test") and delegate the {{grant}} permission to tables created in that namespace to a user that would manage those tables. Presently, {{grant}} is never delegated.
>  # create simple "test" and "production" namespaces that are trivial for users to switch between.  For example, instead of having tables "test_index" and "test_documents" the client would support "index" and "documents" with an API to support switching trivially between the the different environments.
>  # create a set of tables in a namespace called "latest"  This namespace is re-created periodically with a map-reduce job.  If code changes inadvertently create a corrupt "latest," users can switch to the set of tables known as "safest"  In this way, users can experiment, and provide feedback on incremental improvements, while have a safe fallback.
>  # two applications hosted on the same cluster that can share a table, which has been "aliased" into their namespace.  Namespace-local permissions are ignored, but a (most likely read-only) view of the table is available.  This would be helpful for reference tables.
>  # quotas/priorities.  Implement namespace-specific priorities and resource allocations.  It is reasonable to run namespace-specific queries and ingest on production equipment. Large cluster resources are always limited, and often the *only* place where near-production quality software can be run at full scale.

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