Hi,
Came across a problem that I need to walk through.
On the client side, when you instantiate an HTable object, you can specify
HTable.setAutoFlush(true/false). Setting the boolean value to true means that
when you execute a put(), the write is not buffered on the client and will be
I think Lars explains it best:
http://www.larsgeorge.com/2010/01/hbase-architecture-101-write-ahead-log.html
Short version: writing to the WAL is a backup solution if the region
server dies, because it's the MemStore that's being used for reads
(not the WAL). If you autoFlush, then everyone can