Hi,
I'm trying to understand the append operation introduced in 0.94.
Is there a documentation or a specification somewhere?
The javadoc for Append does not provide any detail.
The HBase book doesn't mention this operation.
I found some fragmented info in several JIRA issues, but nothing
I have just gone through the code and trying answering ur questions.
From what I currently understand, this operation allows me to append bytes
to an existing cell.
Yes
Does this append by creating a new cell with a new timestamp?
Yes
Does this update the cell while maintaining its timestamp?
No.
Thanks Anoop!
For reference:
- Applying an append containing multiple KeyValue for the same
family/qualifier results in all the values but the last one being discarded.
- Applying an append on a column already containing versions more recent
than the current time apparently discards all
