One supplement: I noticed that there are discussions in HBase ML this March about removing stable-1 pointer and got consensus [1], and will follow up in HBase community about why we didn't take real action. However, this doesn't change my previous statement / stand due to the number of 1.x usages in production.
Best Regards, Yu [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-dev/202003.mbox/%3c30180be2-bd93-d414-a158-16c9c8d01...@apache.org%3E On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 15:54, Yu Li <car...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 on upgrading the HBase version of the connector, and 1.4.3 is indeed an > old version. > > OTOH, AFAIK there're still quite some 1.x HBase clusters in production. We > could also see that the HBase community is still maintaining 1.x release > lines (with "stable-1 release" point to 1.4.13) [1] > > Please also notice that HBase follows semantic versioning [2] [3] thus > don't promise any kind of compatibility (source/binary/wire, etc.) between > major versions. So if we only maintain 2.x connector, it would not be able > to work with 1.x HBase clusters. > > I totally understand the additional efforts of maintaining two modules, > but since we're also reserving multiple versions for kafka connector, > meantime considering the current HBase in-production status, I'd still > suggest to get both 1.4.13 and 2.2.5 supported. > > Best Regards, > Yu > > [1] http://hbase.apache.org/downloads.html > [2] https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.versioning > [3] https://semver.org/ > > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 14:58, Leonard Xu <xbjt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 to support HBase 2.2.x, and +1 to retain HBase 1.4.3 until we >> deprecates finished(maybe one version is enough). >> >> Currently we only support HBase 1.4.3 which is pretty old, and I’m making >> a flink-sql-connector-hbase[1] shaded jar for pure SQL user, the >> dependencies is a little more complex. >> >> >> 在 2020年6月19日，14:20，jackylau <liuyon...@gmail.com> 写道： >> >> + 1 to support HBase 2.x and the hbase 2.x client dependencies are simple >> and clear. Tbe hbase project shades them all >> >> >> Best, >> Leonard Xu >> [1] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/12687 >> >>
