@Ted No i had not looked at DateTiered. I will. Thanks @Vladimir I will look at the example code you gave me. thanks
________________________________ From: Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 2:12:00 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Need guidance on Custom Compaction Policy Have you taken look at http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.date.tiered ? Cheers On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:29 PM, jeff saremi <jeffsar...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I mentioned some of this in another thread. We have a readonly database > which get bulk loaded using HFiles. > We want to keep only two versions/generations of data. Since the size of > data is massive we need to delete the older generation. > > Since we write one single HBase for each region for each CF for each > generation, could we just yank the older files using a separate standalone > process? (sounds a little scary) > > If not, could we write a custom compactor? what's involved (some pointers > please)? thanks > > Jeff >