[MAILBOX-170] Store mailboxes in HDFS SequenceFile

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Component/s: hbase
• Assignee: Ioan Eugen Stan
• Reporter: Ioan Eugen Stan
• Created: 29/Feb/12 16:42
• Updated: 02/Mar/13 18:09
• Resolved: 02/Mar/13 18:09

Description

The current implementation stores messages directly in HBase. I believe a better approach is to store the messages as SequenceFiles in the <mail_ID>: <message_data>. HBase will store sequence File offests in the SequenceFile for each mailbox for fast access similar to a hadoop MapFile.

Issue Links

• is related to: MAILBOX-72 Requirements for a distributed mailbox implementation