On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Vladimir Rodionov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> All row mutate operations in HBase are atomic:
> puts/deletes/increments/appends.
> Atomicity in HBase has the same meaning as in RDBMs exactly - operations
> completes as a whole or does not at all.  There is an additional guarantee
> in HBase that all reads are ROW - atomic as well - one will never read
> partial result of atomic mutate operation (on a ROW). READ_UNCOMMITTED will
> weaken this read atomicity guarantee and it will be possible to read
> partial results of a row mutation operation,
>
> so we discard row read atomicity but still have cell atomicity
> (hopefully?).
>
> This is my understanding of what READ_UNCOMMITTED means in HBase.
>
> PS
>
> I created :
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11965


Thanks Vladimir,
St.Ack

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