twitter/elephant-bird
Twitter's collection of LZO and Protocol Buffer-related Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and HBase code. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6006
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1241
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1133 stars · 382 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Twitter's Java library of LZO, Thrift, and Protocol Buffer-related Hadoop InputFormats, Pig LoadFuncs, Hive SerDes, and HBase utilities. It enables big-data pipelines to read and write compressed and serialized data formats across the Hadoop ecosystem.
Use cases
- read LZO-compressed files in Hadoop MapReduce jobs
- load Protocol Buffer data into Pig
- use Thrift serialized data with Hive SerDe
- process protobuf records in Hadoop
- integrate HBase with Pig and Hive pipelines
When to choose
- you run legacy Hadoop/Pig/Hive pipelines handling LZO, Thrift, or Protocol Buffer data
- you need battle-tested input/output formats proven in Twitter production
When to avoid
- you use modern data engines like Spark or Flink with native format support
- you need actively developed features - the project is largely in maintenance mode
- your stack doesn't involve the Hadoop ecosystem
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
serialization compression etl database big-data developer-tools jvm cloud hadoop pig hive hbase lzo protocol-buffers thrift inputformat data-engineering
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/twitter/elephant-bird · fetched 2026-08-28 · a9eff1154103
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| twitter/elephant-bird | main | 23 |
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