Asyncthrift is a partial implementation of the HBase thrift gateway, using the same interface with vastly enhanced capabilities.
- Completely asynchronous implementation (improved performance and scalability)
- Memory efficient (bounded buffers)
- Disk spooling of HBase transactions (improved reliability of the whole system)
- Separated processes for logging and forwarding transactions
Asyncthrift is buildable as a debian package on Debian squeeze and Ubuntu precise.
Compilation dependencies are correctly defined on debian/control and include:
- Qt >= 4.6
- Sun Java6 (on Ubuntu use OAB-Java: https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6/)
- libdaemon
- Log4CXX
- Boost >= 1.40
You are going to need the thrift-compiler package (>= 0.8.0), which you can build yourself from the thrift sources.
To build as a debian package:
dpkg-buildpackage -b
There are init scripts for both the logger and the forwarder processes, which you can start with
/etc/init.d/asyncthrift-logger start
/etc/init.d/asyncthrift-forwarder start
There are several configuration files in /etc/asyncthrift and /etc/default/asyncthrift with which you can tune the logger and forwarder behaviour.
You can build the code without the debian infrastructure by installing all the dependencies and doing:
./configure && cd build && make
The configure script has some options which you can see by passing the -h parameter