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Re: is it possible to control physical deletion of data in hbase?Stack 2012-10-13, 18:06
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Richard Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I want to manually control the number of versions of data physically
> stored in hbase.
>
> I am aware that physically deleting a record in hbase occurs only in major
> compaction (link<http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2011/12/deletion-in-hbase.html>),
> and want to know if it's possible to physically delete only the records in
> major compaction, that meets, for example, the following two conditions:
> 1. has more than one version. (>=2)
> 2. timestamp is lower than a specified value.
>
> Does hbase provide interface for config compaction to allow the above
> behaviour (without change hbase code and recompiling)? Let me know if you
> have any thoughts on this. Thanks.
>
Take a look at coprocessers. You can interpolate your own code at
compaction time IIRC.
St.Ack
> Hi, I want to manually control the number of versions of data physically
> stored in hbase.
>
> I am aware that physically deleting a record in hbase occurs only in major
> compaction (link<http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2011/12/deletion-in-hbase.html>),
> and want to know if it's possible to physically delete only the records in
> major compaction, that meets, for example, the following two conditions:
> 1. has more than one version. (>=2)
> 2. timestamp is lower than a specified value.
>
> Does hbase provide interface for config compaction to allow the above
> behaviour (without change hbase code and recompiling)? Let me know if you
> have any thoughts on this. Thanks.
>
Take a look at coprocessers. You can interpolate your own code at
compaction time IIRC.
St.Ack
