Hi, We are having an issue with the way HBase does handling of deletes. We are looking to retrieve 300 columns in a row but the row has tens of thousands of delete markers in it before we span the 300 columns something like this
row DeleteCol1 Col1 DeleteCol2 Col2 ................... DeleteCol3 Col3 And so on. Therefore, the issue here, being that to retrieve these 300 columns, we need to go through tens of thousands of deletes - sometimes we get a spurt of these queries and that DDoSes a region server. We are okay with saying, only return first 300 columns and stop once you encounter, say 5K column delete markers or something. I wonder if such a construct is provided by HBase or do we need to build something on top of the RAW scan and handle the delete masking there. Thanks Varun
