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