Re: Collation order of items

2012-06-08 Thread Jason Frantz
Yet another approach is to transform your keys into byte comparable values that preserve your desired sort order, and store that instead. The ICU library has the ability to do this for various collations of UTF strings: http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation/architecture#TOC-Sort-Keys So for

Re: Table not storing versions after deleteall

2012-07-18 Thread Jason Frantz
Zoltan, It's actually a bit more complicated because the behavior is non-deterministic. If a compaction happens the delete marker may be removed, and if you add the rows back after this time they *will* be visible. See the following for more info: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-de

Re: column based or row based storage for HBase?

2012-08-06 Thread Jason Frantz
Lin, Looks like your questions may already be answered, but you might find the following link comparing "traditional" columnar databases against HBase/BigTable interesting: http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/03/distinguishing-two-major-types-of_29.html -Jason On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:03 PM, L

Re: HBase Put

2012-08-22 Thread Jason Frantz
Abhishek, Setting your column family's bloom filter to ROWCOL will include qualifiers: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#schema.bloom -Jason On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Pamecha, Abhishek wrote: > Can I enable bloom filters per block at column qualifier levels too? That > way, will small

Re: Disk Seeks and Column families

2012-01-24 Thread Jason Frantz
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Praveen Sripati wrote: > Thanks for the response. I am just getting started with HBase. And before > getting into the code/api level details, I am trying to understand the > problem area HBase is trying to address through it's architecture/design. > > 1) So, what