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 >
