Re: Table/column layout

2016-06-12 Thread Ken Hampson
Hi, Anil: Thanks for the feedback! I'll proceed with the non-short column-naming. It's good to have some feedback from real-world, production cases. Thanks again, - Ken On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 2:47 PM anil gupta wrote: > My 2 cents: > > #1. HBase version timestamp is

Re: Table/column layout

2016-06-11 Thread anil gupta
My 2 cents: #1. HBase version timestamp is purely used for storing & purging historical data on basis of TTL. If you try to build an app toying around timestamps you might run into issues. So, you might need to be very careful with that. #2. Usually HBase suggests that column name to be around

Re: Table/column layout

2016-06-10 Thread Ken Hampson
I realize that was probably a bit of a wall of text... =) So, TL;DR: I'm wondering: 1) If people have used and had good experiences with caller-specified version timestamps (esp. given the caveats in the HBase book doc re: issues with deletions and TTLs). 2) About suggestions for optimal column