Please refer to this method in HRegion.java: public void delete(Map<byte[], List<KeyValue>> familyMap, boolean writeToWAL)
Also read the javadoc at the beginning of Delete.java On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Gagandeep Singh <gagandeep.si...@paxcel.net > wrote: > Hi > > Can somebody please shed some light on the internal working of the HBase > delete operation. So when I perform a delete operation what exactly happens > underneath the code. Is my data removed immediately from the disk or else a > flag is set by HBase to mark those rows as deleted. > > Thanks, > Gagan >
