Where can I read up on how counters work with hbase?

Does it have some sort of api like:

hbaseClient.incrementAndGet()

Since things are distributed, I would imagine actually acting on the
counter value is not really possible since unless the thing acting on the
counter is single threaded right?

One interesting post to read is from Lars H:
http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2012/11/hbase-mvcc-and-built-in-atomic.html
It describes how the atomic counter operations work.

Jeff
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:25 PM, S Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Where can I read up on how counters work with hbase?
>
> Does it have some sort of api like:
>
> hbaseClient.incrementAndGet()
>
> Since things are distributed, I would imagine actually acting on the
> counter value is not really possible since unless the thing acting on the
> counter is single threaded right?
>

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