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Todd Lipcon commented on HBASE-5229:
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I'd rather see some ability to make the split row determination a pluggable
interface, so this could be implemented without changing core. Do you think
that sounds feasible?
Pie-in-the-sky wise, it would be great if HBase had a data model that was just
a hierarchy with a configurable number of tables. Right now we have (row, col,
ts) keys, where row is both the unit of splittability and the unit of
atomicity. It would be cool if instead you could have a table with (foo, bar,
baz, ts) where "foo" was the unit of split and "baz" was the unit of atomicity
-- or even do away with timestamps on a row. But that would be a rather giant
change.
> Explore building blocks for "multi-row" local transactions.
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> Key: HBASE-5229
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5229
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: client, regionserver
> Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
> Assignee: Lars Hofhansl
> Fix For: 0.94.0
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> Attachments: 5229-seekto-v2.txt, 5229-seekto.txt, 5229.txt
>
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> HBase should provide basic building blocks for multi-row local transactions.
> Local means that we do this by co-locating the data. Global (cross region)
> transactions are not discussed here.
> After a bit of discussion two solutions have emerged:
> 1. Keep the row-key for determining grouping and location and allow efficient
> intra-row scanning. A client application would then model tables as
> HBase-rows.
> 2. Define a prefix-length in HTableDescriptor that defines a grouping of
> rows. Regions will then never be split inside a grouping prefix.
> #1 is true to the current storage paradigm of HBase.
> #2 is true to the current client side API.
> I will explore these two with sample patches here.
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> Was:
> As discussed (at length) on the dev mailing list with the HBASE-3584 and
> HBASE-5203 committed, supporting atomic cross row transactions within a
> region becomes simple.
> I am aware of the hesitation about the usefulness of this feature, but we
> have to start somewhere.
> Let's use this jira for discussion, I'll attach a patch (with tests)
> momentarily to make this concrete.
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