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Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:13:08 -0000
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Subject: [Lucene-hadoop Wiki] Trivial Update of "Hbase/HbaseShell/HQL" by
 stack

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The following page has been changed by stack:
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/Hbase/HbaseShell/HQL

The comment on the change is:
Couple of comments

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  without using programming APIs. 
  
  We borrowed the syntax definition style from MySQL.
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+ ''~-This page looks excellent.  I've added a few minor comments.  Please remove when done with them. -- St.Ack-~''
  
  == Data Definition Statements ==
  
@@ -94, +96 @@

  
  TIMESTAMP returns only the values with the specified timestamp. 
  
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+ ''~- I'd suggest you add LIMIT as in LIMIT=20 returns twenty rows only.  Otherwise, when the database has many rows, the users screen will be overwhelmed by returns.  You could use the new filter mechanism [http://lucene.zones.apache.org:8080/hudson/job/Hadoop-Nightly/javadoc/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/filter/package-summary.html filters], in particular the StopRowFilter implementing LIMIT.  How about an INTO so you can select INTO another table or INTO a file? -- St.Ack-~''
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  === INSERT Syntax ===
  INSERT inserts a set of values into a table. 
  
@@ -138, +143 @@

  By default, for every statement execution that updates a table, 
  Hbase immediately stores the update on disk.
  
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+ ''~- TRANSACTION on a row-level only -- and this is all you could guarantee in HBase -- may be a bit-over-the-top and require more effort than its worth.  How about implementing this one last, if it is needed at all? -- St.Ack-~''
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