John, If you enable KEEP_DELETED_CELLS on the underlying HBase table you will be able to see deleted data (See http://hbase.apache.org/0.94/book/cf.keep.deleted.html ) Could you describe what you mean by making a set of changes at the same timestamp?
Thanks, Thomas On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:50 PM, John Lilley <john.lil...@redpoint.net> wrote: > Greetings, > > > > I’ve been reading about Phoenix with an eye toward implementing a “versioned > database” on Hadoop. It looks pretty slick, especially the ability to query > at past timestamp. But I can’t figure out what happens with deleted > records. Are all versions deleted, or can I still go back in time and see > the versions before the delete? > > > > Also I would like to be able to make a set of changes “at the same > timestamp” to a get a changeset-like ability similar to a VCS. It looks > like the APIs allow for setting of the effective timestamp for all change > operations; is that true? > > > > Thanks > > John Lilley > >