RE: working with versions

2010-05-10 Thread Lior Schachter
ryano...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 3:40 AM To: hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: working with versions The way incrementColumnValue plays with versions is not super clean - it needs to create new versions at times that are due to technical necessity not due to business logic.

Re: working with versions

2010-05-09 Thread Ryan Rawson
The way incrementColumnValue plays with versions is not super clean - it needs to create new versions at times that are due to technical necessity not due to business logic. At SU we have a data scheme where we put the date in the key and then use incrementColumnValue to keep the column data part

Re: working with versions

2010-05-09 Thread Barney Frank
There is a method on the table to increment values: someHBaseTable.incrementColumnValue() Look it up in the javadocs. On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Lior Schachter wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose I want to keep aggregated data (e.g. counters) per day for a year > or > so (this way I can query hbase

working with versions

2010-05-09 Thread Lior Schachter
Hi, Suppose I want to keep aggregated data (e.g. counters) per day for a year or so (this way I can query hbase on a specific date range). Is the proper way to do this is to use the in-built versions mechanism of a column i.e. open a new version every day and then when query - sum the right versi