Just out of curiosity, are there any performance benefits from setting
READONLY to true on tables? I've checked out the HBase book and
Definitive Guide and the API docs, but none of them go beyond a basic
description of READONLY behavior (which seems to be pretty simple :)).

Homer

I don't think there is any performance benefit as such. From the
source code, it appears that the only use is to avoid accidentally
updating / mutating a table that you want to keep immutable.
So - setting the read only flag will prevent accidental updates to that table.

--Suraj
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Homer Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, are there any performance benefits from setting
> READONLY to true on tables? I've checked out the HBase book and
> Definitive Guide and the API docs, but none of them go beyond a basic
> description of READONLY behavior (which seems to be pretty simple :)).
>
> Homer
>