[jira] [Commented] (ACCUMULO-3375) Move user and permission data into a table

["Josh Elser (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-3375:
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Full disclosure, I haven't actually looked into the level of effort to make such a change. It came up in discussion once when I was talking about how Accumulo manages its user database and that ZK doesn't come across architecturally as good choice. Wanted to get it written down before I forgot again.

> Move user and permission data into a table
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>                 Key: ACCUMULO-3375
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3375
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Josh Elser
>
> We currently use ZooKeeper to store the user database (name and password) in addition to the authorizations and permissions for each user.
> ZooKeeper is designed for distributed configuration and synchronization/coordination tasks; it is not designed to be a persistent store. In this case it would be better to use a table to manage this information.
> I think this might reduce some complexity in managing that database, notably better recovery if ZK dies for some reason. Having a table might trivialize import/export of the user database (ACCUMULO-1722 is what made me think of this).



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