Yes, this behavior would be fantastic. If you follow the Kiji/Wibi model
of using many versioned cells, being able to delete a specific cell without
deleting all cells prior to it would be very useful.
Jeff
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Kevin O'dell <kevin.od...@cloudera.com>wrote:
> The problem is it kills all older cells. We should probably file a JIRA
> for this, as this behavior would be nice. Thoughts?:
>
> hbase(main):028:0> truncate 'tre'
>
> Truncating 'tre' table (it may take a while):
>
> - Disabling table...
>
> - Dropping table...
>
> - Creating table...
>
> 0 row(s) in 4.6060 seconds
>
>
> hbase(main):029:0> put 'tre', 'row1', 'cf1:c1', 'abc', 111
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.0220 seconds
>
>
> hbase(main):030:0> put 'tre', 'row1', 'cf1:c1', 'abcd', 112
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.0060 seconds
>
>
> hbase(main):031:0> put 'tre', 'row1', 'cf1:c1', 'abce', 113
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.0120 seconds
>
>
> hbase(main):032:0> scan 'tre', {NAME => 'cf1:c1', VERSIONS => 4}
>
> ROW COLUMN+CELL
>
>
>
>
> row1 column=cf1:c1,
> timestamp=113, value=abce
>
>
>
> row1 column=cf1:c1,
> timestamp=112, value=abcd
>
>
>
> row1 column=cf1:c1,
> timestamp=111, value=abc
>
>
> hbase(main):033:0> delete 'tre', 'row1', 'cf1:c1', 112
>
> 0 row(s) in 0.0110 seconds
>
>
> hbase(main):034:0> scan 'tre', {NAME => 'cf1:c1', VERSIONS => 4}
>
> ROW COLUMN+CELL
>
>
>
>
> row1 column=cf1:c1,
> timestamp=113, value=abce
>
>
>
> 1 row(s) in 0.0290 seconds
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Sergey Shelukhin <ser...@hortonworks.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't you be able to insert delete with t belonging to (t2, t3) to
> > achieve this effect?
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Jonathan Natkins <na...@wibidata.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Yep, that's the scenario I was curious about. Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari <
> > > jean-m...@spaggiari.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Jonathan,
> > > >
> > > > Is that what you mean?
> > > >
> > > > In the same CF:C
> > > > insert r1 v1 t1
> > > > insert r1 v2 t2
> > > > insert r1 v3 t3
> > > >
> > > > Then you want to be able to delete r1 v3 t3 to see r1 v2?
> > > >
> > > > This is not possible. If you put a delete with t4, everything older
> > > > than t4 will be deleted when the compression will occur.
> > > >
> > > > JM
> > > >
> > > > 2013/3/7 Jonathan Natkins <na...@wibidata.com>:
> > > > > It was suggested to me that there might be a way to delete a cell
> in
> > a
> > > > > column for a particular timestamp, without masking all older
> values.
> > Is
> > > > > this true? Or have I been fed lies?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > Natty
> > > > >
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