Hi, answers inline:

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Cristian Malinescu <cristian.malinescu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Gustavo - thanks for the guidance! 
Have some questions - 
1. ISPN-2940 - says the idea isn't new and it didn't got a 'Go' at that moment. If we proceed with this work, does it mean a reopening of the item? 


At the time ISPN-2940 was incorporated as an add-on to [1], but doing [1] at this point is debatable.

 
2. Couldn't see any design docs for both SingleFile and SoftIndexFile store(s) subsystems - fairly, couldn't find design docs for any of the pluggable
     cache store modules. I want to start from one of them to keep consistency and compatibility in style for easiness of adoption.


Sure, but HDFS is a slightly different filesystem: distributed, append-only and not POSIX compliant, so I'm not sure at what extent it could be based on the other two file stores.

 
3. Was the HDFS store idea abandoned because just using HBase would pretty much offer the same with the advantage of offloading on HBase the need
    for compaction due to the append-only nature of HDFS?


At the end of the day, when using the HBase Cachestore [2], data will be stored in HDFS, but with some caveats:

 * the data format will be whatever format HBase uses
 * requires HBase

OTOH, a pure HDFS cache store is an interesting proposal for the cases where installing and maintaining HBase is not desirable, and it gives freedom to choose a
highly interoperable storage like Apache Parquet [3]

Cheers
Cris 

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Gustavo Fernandes <gustavo@infinispan.org> wrote:
Hi Cristian!

A HDFS cache store [1] looks interesting, and given the append-only nature of HDFS, I'd say probably the SoftIndex is better to look at than the SingleFile store since it employs some techniques of append only plus eventual compactations.
It'd be interesting to have a design document so that we can have a starting point; we usually publish such designs at [2].

Cheers,
Gustavo


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Cristian Malinescu <cristian.malinescu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello folks - I would like to implement for my own project a custom cache store for Infinispan using HDFS and using as base line one of the already implemented file stores - SoftIndex and SingleFile. 
I thought it would be beneficiary if I start and do it directly as contribution to the Infinispan code base, is someone interested to take on this subject and we start brainstorming about how should this task being approached to be sure it gets done smooth, accordingly to the project's community house rules so we don't encounter hassle at the point when we can look at merging in the baseline, avoid potentially double work for same feature etc. 

Kind regards
Cristian Malinescu



so theoretically I can just start and place a pull request on GitHub but I wanted to be sure you guys are also aware of this plan so we keep in sync and all opinions are taken in consideration and addressed. 

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