Thanks Christ for the info! I am still puzzling on how I can use either Constraints or Filters for my scenario. Let's walkthru my sample scenario, we have 4 inserts coming at different time
T1: ['foo', 1] T2: ['foo', 1] T3: ['bar', 1] T4: ['foo', 1] With Combiners, I could get what I want: ['bar', 1] ['foo', 3] I wonder if earlier Eric implies the Constraint that is applied during compaction, which in this case it can reject ['bar', 1], and leaves ['foo', 3] in the table, which is what I want. I am not sure if we can do that though. Sorry if I missed the point from you guys earlier. Thanks, Z -- View this message in context: http://apache-accumulo.1065345.n5.nabble.com/exception-thrown-during-minor-compaction-tp15010p15037.html Sent from the Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.