One interesting post to read is from Lars H: http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2012/11/hbase-mvcc-and-built-in-atomic.html It describes how the atomic counter operations work.
Jeff On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:25 PM, S Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote: > Where can I read up on how counters work with hbase? > > Does it have some sort of api like: > > hbaseClient.incrementAndGet() > > Since things are distributed, I would imagine actually acting on the > counter value is not really possible since unless the thing acting on the > counter is single threaded right? > -- *Jeff Kolesky* Chief Software Architect *Opower*
