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Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-4102:
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I think unifying Put and Append is not support important. It would be good to
unify Increment and Append, maybe even CheckAndPut/Delete? A generic atomic op
thing.
For the attributes, I think we just need a convention for system attributes,
for example, they are preceded by an _ underscore. And then we can put all the
used attributes into HConstants for easy tracking.
Let's open another JIRA to integrate RWCC w/ Append and possibly Increment as
well. We can discuss there.
> atomicAppend: A put that appends to the latest version of a cell; i.e. reads
> current value then adds the bytes offered by the client to the tail and
> writes out a new entry
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> Key: HBASE-4102
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4102
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: stack
> Assignee: Lars Hofhansl
> Fix For: 0.94.0
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> Attachments: 4102-v1.txt, 4102.txt
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> Its come up a few times that clients want to add to an existing cell rather
> than make a new cell each time. At our place, the frontend keeps a list of
> urls a user has visited -- their md5s -- and updates it as user progresses.
> Rather than read, modify client-side, then write new value back to hbase, it
> would be sweet if could do it all in one operation in hbase server. TSDB
> aims to be space efficient. Rather than pay the cost of the KV wrapper per
> metric, it would rather have a KV for an interval an in this KV have a value
> that is all the metrics for the period.
> It could be done as a coprocessor but this feels more like a fundamental
> feature.
> Benoît suggests that atomicAppend take a flag to indicate whether or not the
> client wants to see the resulting cell; often a client won't want to see the
> result and in this case, why pay the price formulating and delivering a
> response that client just drops.
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