I was looking over the bigtable pdf again to make sure that's where I read this, but there setup allows Column Families to be removed from the database in garbage collection. Is this a feature that will be added to hbase?
Basically it allows you to set a max ttl for a column row. I can see where this would be useful for nutch and other apps in crawling. Example storing links from z page pointing to x page if not updated by y time it gets removed form the dataset. keeps from having the scan the whole dataset to remove stale data. Billy
