Re: How about to give more flexibility to RowKey (customized comparator and serializer)

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

This was ruled out when this jira was closed
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-661

See the comments on why, feel free to post there if you think we
should include such a feature and more importantly how it can be
implemented in a way that's not adding a lot of extra complexity.

Thx,

J-D

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Schubert Zhang <zs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In our application, we want to build a index htable to a core htable, and
> the key of the index includes multiple columns in the core htable.
>
> for example:
>
> The core table:
> RowKey -> column1, column2, column3, column4
> Note:  The length of column1 and column2 is irregular.
>
> The index table:
> RowKey -> col1, col2, col3
>
> But the RowKey of the index table is composed by column1 and column2 in the
> core table.
>
> So, I propose a following feature for HBase:
> The RowKey of HBase support flexibility customization. i.e.
> (1) Support used defined comparator of RowKey, then the order of rows can be
> customized by user.
> (2) Support used defined serializer of RowKey, then the bytes of rowkey can
> be customized by user.
>
> and i.e. maybe we can provide a following java class for RowKey:
>
> interface RowKey implements Writable, Comparable {
>
> }
>
> Then application can implement its own RowKey class, and tell the HBase when
> create htable.
>
> Schubert Zhang
>