Lars H replied to you this afternoon.

Please check his reply.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Wei Tan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I have a question regarding the correlation between the visible
> timestamp of a KV (denoted as ts) and its memstore timestamp (aka, the
> write number, denoted as memts). Reading the HRegion.java code it seems
> that these two are independently assigned. Let's assume two concurrent
> put: (k, v1) and (k, v2)
>
>
>   Suppose somehow memts(k,v1) < memts(k, v2) then (k,v1) will be committed
> and visible before (k,v2).
> If ts(k,v1) < ts(k, v2), then after both KVs commits, (k,v2) becomes the
> latest version.
> else, if ts(k,v1) > ts(k, v2), then after a "later"(w.r.t. MVCC) KV
> commits, it immediately become stale and still not visible. --- Is it a
> desirable feature?
>
>
>   Am I understanding it correctly, that memts(k,v1) < memts(k, v2) does
> not indicate that ts(k,v1) < ts(k, v2), and vice versa?
> PS: let's talk about the hbase region server assigned, not user assigned,
> visible timestamp.
>
>   Thanks,
>
> Wei
>
>
> Wei Tan
> Research Staff Member
> IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
> 19 Skyline Dr, Hawthorne, NY  10532
> [email protected]; 914-784-6752

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