Hello I use HBase version 0.98.9-hadoop1 with Hadoop version 1.2.1 . when i delete row that has columns with future timestamp, delete not affect and row still surviving.
For example when i put a row with future timestamp: Put p = new Put(Bytes.toBytes("key1")); p.add(Bytes.toBytes("C"), Bytes.toBytes("q1"), 2000000000000L, Bytes.toBytes("test-val")); table.put(p); After put, when i scan my table, the result is: ROW COLUMN+CELL key1 column=C:q1, timestamp=2000000000000, value=test-val When i delete this row with following code: Delete d = new Delete(Bytes.toBytes("key1")); table.delete(d); OR with this code: Delete d = new Delete(Bytes.toBytes("key1"), Long.MAX_VALUE); table.delete(d); After each two deletes the result of scan is: ROW COLUMN+CELL key1 column=C:q1, timestamp=2000000000000, value=test-val And raw scan result is: ROW COLUMN+CELL key1 column=C:, timestamp=1466931500501, type=DeleteFamily key1 column=C:q1, timestamp=2000000000000, value=test-val But when i change the timestamp of delete to Long.MAX_VALUE-1, this delete works. Can anyone help me with this?