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From: Stack <saint.ack@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: hbase table as a queue.
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:10:41 -0700
To: "user@hbase.apache.org" <user@hbase.apache.org>

Yes. I should have mentioned this.  Thanks Ted. 


On Jul 16, 2011, at 17:52, Ted Dunning <tdunning@maprtech.com> wrote:

> Up to a pretty high transaction rate, you can simply use Zookeeper,
> especially if you check out a block of tasks at once.
> 
> With blocks of 100-1000, you should be able to handle a million events per
> second with very simple ZK data structures.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Stack <stack@duboce.net> wrote:
> 
>> Do not use locks.  Doesn't scale.  Maybe update a cell when task is
>> taken out for processing.  If too much time elapses since last update,
>> maybe give it out again?
>>