Re: Enabling stripe compaction without disabling table

2016-06-07 Thread Enis Söztutar
Disabling the table should not be needed. From the stripe compaction perspective, deploying this in a disabled table versus in an online alter table is not different at all. The "hbase.online.schema.update.enable" property was fixing some possible race conditions that were fixed long time ago. We

RE: Writing visibility labels with HFileOutputFormat2

2016-06-07 Thread Ellis, Tom (Financial Markets IT)
Hi Ram, We're attempting to do it programmatically so: The HFile is created by a Spark job using saveAsNewAPIHadoopFile, and using ImmutableBytesWritable as the key (rowkey) with KeyValue as the value, and using the HFilOutputFormat2 format. This HFile is then loaded using HBase client's

Re: Writing visibility labels with HFileOutputFormat2

2016-06-07 Thread ramkrishna vasudevan
Hi Ellis How is the HFileOutputFormat2 files created? Are you using the ImportTsv tool? If you are using the ImportTsv tool then yes there is a way to specify visibility tags while loading from the ImportTsv tool and those visibility tags are also bulk loaded as HFile. There is an attribute

Writing visibility labels with HFileOutputFormat2

2016-06-07 Thread Ellis, Tom (Financial Markets IT)
Hi, I was wondering if it's possible/how to write Visibility Labels to an HFileOutputFormat2? I believe Visibility Labels are just implemented as Tags, but with the normal way of writing them with Mutation#setCellVisibility these are formally written as Tags to the cells during the