Re: Versioning

2011-08-26 Thread Sheng Chen
Hi, I just saw your recent update of the hbase book on the version number question, and I'm also confused about it. As said on the book (HBASE-4251), it is not recommended setting the number of versions to an exceedingly high level (e.g., hundreds or more) unless those old values are very dear to

RE: Versioning

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Segel
-Mike Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:37:46 +0800 Subject: Re: Versioning From: chensheng2...@gmail.com To: user@hbase.apache.org Hi, I just saw your recent update of the hbase book on the version number question, and I'm also confused about it. As said on the book (HBASE-4251

RE: Versioning

2011-08-26 Thread Buttler, David
in separate rows. Dave -Original Message- From: Sheng Chen [mailto:chensheng2...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 1:38 AM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Versioning Hi, I just saw your recent update of the hbase book on the version number question, and I'm also confused about

Re: Versioning

2011-08-26 Thread Bill Graham
AM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Versioning Hi, I just saw your recent update of the hbase book on the version number question, and I'm also confused about it. As said on the book (HBASE-4251), it is not recommended setting the number of versions to an exceedingly high level (e.g

Re: Versioning

2011-08-26 Thread Doug Meil
-Original Message- From: Sheng Chen [mailto:chensheng2...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 1:38 AM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Versioning Hi, I just saw your recent update of the hbase book on the version number question, and I'm also confused about it. As said on the book

Re: Versioning

2011-08-17 Thread Doug Meil
Versioning can be used to see the previous state of a record. Some people need this feature, others don't. One thing that may be worth a review is this... http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#keysize ... and specifically the fact about all the values being freighted with timestamp (aka version)