long lockId = table.startUpdate(new Text("myRow"));
...
...
....
table.commit(lockId); || table.abort(lockId);
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Zhou Wei
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> Does HBase support single-row transaction as described in Bigtable paper?
>
> "Bigtable supports single-row transactions, which can be
> used to perform atomic read-modify-write sequences on
> data stored under a single row key." --Bigtable paper
>
> If so, how can I define a transaction in HBase,
> is it looks like this:
>
> lid=startUpdate
> get(lid)
> ..
> put(lid)
> ...
> commit(lid)
>
> Are these transactions isolated with each other?
> If not, is there a way to achieve that?
>
> Thanks
>
> Zhou
>
