How do deletes work in HBase? Suppose I have 2 Column Families and a key that has entries for both column families. Now I want to delete this key. Is a major compaction absolutely essential for this key to be deleted? Where I can I follow the code this operation? Now I am assuming that major compaction doesn't take place all the time since it may be an expensive operation. Having said that how are the reads for this key supressed? Please explain.
Thanks in advance JRR
