But I just considered about the efficiency. Why HBase does not directly write a tombstone to row key instead of for each cell?
regards Yong On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Jahangir Mohammed <md.jahangi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Tombstone. Same as cell. > > Thanks, > Jahangir Mohammed. > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 1:14 AM, yonghu <yongyong...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hello, > > > > I read http://hbase.apache.org/book/versions.html and have a question > > about > > delete operation. As it mentions, the user can delete a whole row or > delete > > a data version of cell. The delete operation of data version of cell is > > just to write a tombstone marker for that version. I want to know how > about > > delete a row? Does HBase deletes the row immediately? or use the same > > strategy as deleting a data version which create a tombstone for that row > > key? Or create a tombstone for every data version belongs to that row? > > > > regards > > > > Yong > > >
