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Building Thrift on RedHat/CentOS 5.x

What’s Thrift you ask? Well to quote their website.

Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, Smalltalk, and OCaml.

 

And why do I needed it? Well I have been testing Cassandra for at work and one of the developers want to generate some csharp code using the Thrift API, so of course he wanted me to do it, since he was having problems getting it to work on his Window box.

 

So here is the short notes for what I did.

 

Downloaded Thrift code:
thrift-incubating-0.2.0.tar.gz

Installed/Updated required packages:
sudo yum install automake libtool flex bison pkgconfig gcc-c++ boost-devel libevent-devel zlib-devel python-devel ruby-devel

Unpacked the code, compiled, and installed it:
tar -zxf thrift-incubating-0.2.0.tar.gz
cd thrift-incubating-0.2.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

That’s it, have fun. Next project going to look at Lucandra: A Cassandra-based Lucene backend.

MySQL Workbench..

The MySQL Workbench has been out for a little while now, and I kind of put it to the back of my mind, because when it come out it was on Windows only. I, myself use Linux about 90% of the time, so I figured I would wait until they had a Linux version. The other day I was surfing MySQL website and noticed that they have a Linux, and OS X version now. So I figured I would give it a try.

I have use the MySQL GUI tools before and while they are great for simplifying administration and have a lot of basic functionality, they are lacking in the design and development areas. Now enters MySQL Workbench. It’s a data modeling and design tool. To quote the MySQL website.

“MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, generate, and manage all types of databases including Web, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that normally require much time and effort” 

All in all it’s not a bad tool. It’s easy to use and fills a hole in the MySQL toolkit. Of course there are two version of it Community and Standard, of which the standard has $99 a year subscription and has additional plugins.

Check it out: http://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/