Author: stack
Date: Mon May 23 20:44:19 2011
New Revision: 1126735
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1126735&view=rev
Log:
HBASE-3903 A successful write to client write-buffer may be lost or not visible
Modified:
hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt
hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml
hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/acid-semantics.xml
Modified: hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt?rev=1126735&r1=1126734&r2=1126735&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt (original)
+++ hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt Mon May 23 20:44:19 2011
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
HBASE-3826 Minor compaction needs to check if still over
compactionThreshold after compacting (Nicolas Spiegelberg)
HBASE-3912 [Stargate] Columns not handle by Scan
+ HBASE-3903 A successful write to client write-buffer may be lost or not
+ visible (Doug Meil)
IMPROVEMENTS
HBASE-3290 Max Compaction Size (Nicolas Spiegelberg via Stack)
Modified: hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml?rev=1126735&r1=1126734&r2=1126735&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml (original)
+++ hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml Mon May 23 20:44:19 2011
@@ -753,8 +753,12 @@ HTable table2 = new HTable(conf2, "myTab
is filled. The writebuffer is 2MB by default. Before an
HTable instance is
discarded, either <methodname>close()</methodname> or
<methodname>flushCommits()</methodname> should be invoked so
Puts
- will not be lost.
- </para>
+ will not be lost.
+ </para>
+ <para>Note: <code>htable.delete(Delete);</code> does not go in
the writebuffer! This only applies to Puts.
+ </para>
+ <para>For additional information on write durability, review the
<link xlink:href="acid-semantics.html">ACID semantics</link> page.
+ </para>
<para>For fine-grained control of batching of
<classname>Put</classname>s or <classname>Delete</classname>s,
see the <link
xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.html#batch%28java.util.List%29";>batch</link>
methods on HTable.
Modified: hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/acid-semantics.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/acid-semantics.xml?rev=1126735&r1=1126734&r2=1126735&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/acid-semantics.xml (original)
+++ hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/acid-semantics.xml Mon May 23 20:44:19 2011
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
<section name="Atomicity">
<ol>
- <li>All mutations are atomic within a row. Any put will either
wholely succeed or wholely fail.</li>
+ <li>All mutations are atomic within a row. Any put will either
wholely succeed or wholely fail.[3]</li>
<ol>
<li>An operation that returns a "success" code has
completely succeeded.</li>
<li>An operation that returns a "failure" code has
completely failed.</li>
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
<ol>
<li> When a client receives a "success" response for any
mutation, that
mutation is immediately visible to both that client and any client
with whom it
- later communicates through side channels.</li>
+ later communicates through side channels. [3]</li>
<li> A row must never exhibit so-called "time-travel"
properties. That
is to say, if a series of mutations moves a row sequentially through
a series of
states, any sequence of concurrent reads will return a subsequence
of those states.</li>
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
<li> All visible data is also durable data. That is to say, a read
will never return
data that has not been made durable on disk[2]</li>
<li> Any operation that returns a "success" code (eg does
not throw an exception)
- will be made durable.</li>
+ will be made durable.[3]</li>
<li> Any operation that returns a "failure" code will not
be made durable
(subject to the Atomicity guarantees above)</li>
<li> All reasonable failure scenarios will not affect any of the
guarantees of this document.</li>
@@ -205,6 +205,12 @@
</ul>
</section>
</section>
+ <section name="More Information">
+ <p>
+ For more information, see the <a href="book.html#client">client
architecture</a> or <a href="book.html#datamodel">data model</a> sections in
the HBase book.
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
<section name="Footnotes">
<p>[1] A consistent view is not guaranteed intra-row scanning -- i.e.
fetching a portion of
a row in one RPC then going back to fetch another portion of the row
in a subsequent RPC.
@@ -216,6 +222,10 @@
log. This does not actually imply an fsync() to magnetic media, but
rather just that the data has been
written to the OS cache on all replicas of the log. In the case of a
full datacenter power loss, it is
possible that the edits are not truly durable.</p>
+ <p>[3] Puts will either wholely succeed or wholely fail, provided that
they are actually sent
+ to the RegionServer. If the writebuffer is used, Puts will not be sent
until the writebuffer is filled
+ or it is explicitly flushed.</p>
+
</section>
</body>
