Or you could try transactional tables, contributed by Clint Morgan, available in 0.19.
http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/transactional/package-summary.html Certainly this will add some overhead, but if opportunistic concurrency will work for your application, you can try it out. - Andy > From: Michael Dagaev > If I want to use row locks now I will have to throw away > the batch and update each row separately. Is it correct ? > Does it add much more overhead ?
