Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hbase-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 71346 invoked from network); 20 May 2010 18:59:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 20 May 2010 18:59:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 5296 invoked by uid 500); 20 May 2010 18:59:19 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hbase-user-archive@hbase.apache.org Received: (qmail 5265 invoked by uid 500); 20 May 2010 18:59:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@hbase.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@hbase.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@hbase.apache.org Received: (qmail 5257 invoked by uid 99); 20 May 2010 18:59:19 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 May 2010 18:59:19 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=10.0 tests=AWL,HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.214.169] (HELO mail-iw0-f169.google.com) (209.85.214.169) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 May 2010 18:59:14 +0000 Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so186619iwn.14 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.59.199 with SMTP id m7mr481329ibh.30.1274381932235; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:58:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.161.70 with HTTP; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:58:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Todd Lipcon Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:58:32 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Bulk update to an existing table.. To: user@hbase.apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0014853d2058610a9204870b2ad2 --0014853d2058610a9204870b2ad2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Vidhyashankar Venkataraman < vidhyash@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Thanks for the info, Todd.. > > So, I assume the "incremental update" also includes delete operations? > > Probably, but not with any access to the "old" version of the row. My focus is on insert/overwrite. Deletion is just an insert of a deletion tombstone, so I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work. -Todd > > On 5/20/10 11:38 AM, "Todd Lipcon" wrote: > > Hi Vidhya, > > I am actually designing this feature right now - it's become high priority > for us so I hope to have some preliminary support for bulk incremental > update soon. > > Please watch https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1923 > > Thanks > -Todd > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Vidhyashankar Venkataraman < > vidhyash@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > > > > > I know that it is possible to bulk import data into a new table... > > > > Is it possible (or does it even make sense, practically,) to bypass > the > > Hbase API and bulk update (perform modify/insert/delete on) an existing > > table? > > > > Thank you > > Vidhya > > > > > > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera --0014853d2058610a9204870b2ad2--