Thanks for clarifying. With other NoSQL systems, the decisions on what the 
defaults should be are sometimes shocking. So to users of Accumulo it should be 
clear that row-level isolation isn't the default, but in exchange Accumulo 
supports tables with large rows very well.


On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Adam Fuchs wrote:

> So, to clarify Keith's answer, I think the answer is actually no. Regulare
> Olde Scanners only provide a row-level snapshot isolation view if you call
> Scanner.enableIsolation(), but then they can thrown an exception only if
> there is a tablet server failure.
> 
> Adam
> 

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