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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-4102: -------------------------------------- I have this working now. But now I realized two things: 1. I modeled it after the old ICV. I assume we want something like the new Increment API. 2. Is this something that even want to build into HBase? Or should a user implement this with a coprocessor endpoint? (It would be possible to do with a coprocessor, albeit not quite as efficient as an endpoint would have no access to the Stores. > atomicAppend: A put that appends to the latest version of a cell; i.e. reads > current value then adds the bytes offered by the client to the tail and > writes out a new entry > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-4102 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4102 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: stack > Assignee: Lars Hofhansl > > Its come up a few times that clients want to add to an existing cell rather > than make a new cell each time. At our place, the frontend keeps a list of > urls a user has visited -- their md5s -- and updates it as user progresses. > Rather than read, modify client-side, then write new value back to hbase, it > would be sweet if could do it all in one operation in hbase server. TSDB > aims to be space efficient. Rather than pay the cost of the KV wrapper per > metric, it would rather have a KV for an interval an in this KV have a value > that is all the metrics for the period. > It could be done as a coprocessor but this feels more like a fundamental > feature. > BenoƮt suggests that atomicAppend take a flag to indicate whether or not the > client wants to see the resulting cell; often a client won't want to see the > result and in this case, why pay the price formulating and delivering a > response that client just drops. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira