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Erik Holstad commented on HBASE-1578:
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I thought Ryan was all about the buffers like memBuffer :). +1 on changing the
name.
> Change the name of the in-memory updates from 'memcache' to 'memtable' or....
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> Key: HBASE-1578
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1578
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: stack
> Fix For: 0.20.0
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> Our map of sorted edits kept per Store is currently called memcache.
> Memcache is name of a well-known app that does something else. Also, our
> 'memcache' is not a cache. In BT its called 'memtable'. Lets rename it.
> It'll make it easier explaining hbase. What'll we call it? 'updates',
> 'inmemory-store-edits'....
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