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stack commented on HBASE-5674: ------------------------------ @He np. Thanks for the background. On a slightly related note, I was going to ask if you'd been following Matt's work over in hbase-4676. The compression factor he gets over there I thought you'd be interested in. > add support in HBase to overwrite hbase timestamp to a version number during > major compaction > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-5674 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5674 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: He Yongqiang > Assignee: He Yongqiang > > Right now, a millisecond-level timestamp is attached to every record. > In our case, we only need a version number (mostly it will be just zero etc). > A millisecond timestamp is too heavy to carry. We should add support to > overwrite it to zero during major compaction. > KVs before major compaction will remain using system timestamp. And this > should be configurable, so that we should not mess up if the hbase timestamp > is specified by application. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira