Udit once they have been persisted Phoenix tables and indexes are just normal rows in HBase tables. HBase backups and replication would work just fine. It may be helpful to make a small table with index, upsert a few rows and look at the raw entries with the HBase shell to understand what Phoenix is doing for you behind the scenes.
As for Snapshot functionality, Phoenix has explicit support through the CurrentSCN property; usage is demonstrated in the FAQ. http://phoenix.apache.org/faq.html#Can_phoenix_work_on_tables_with_arbitrary_timestamp_as_flexible_as_HBase_API On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:47 PM Udit Mehta <ume...@groupon.com> wrote: > Thanks James for the reply. > > Can you also tell me how to go about taking backups/snapshots in Phoenix > similar to what Hbase has. I assume i cant use the snapshot feature Hbase > offers for the same reason you cited above. > > Thanks again, > Udit > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:26 PM, James Taylor <jamestay...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi Udit, > You'll need to use Phoenix APIs when you update your data if you want > Phoenix to keep you index in sync with your table. > Thanks, > James > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Udit Mehta <ume...@groupon.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am facing an issue while working with secondary indexes on a Phoenix > view/table that is created on top of an existing Hbase table. > > I basically have an existing Hbase table with a few rows and I then build > a Phoenix view on this table. This works fine and any updates directly to > the Hbase table are reflected in the Phoenix view. Now the problem arises > the moment I create a secondary index on the phoenix table and then update > the underlying Hbase table. I dont see the updates being reflected in > either of the Phoenix tables ie the original one and the indexed one. > > Is this behavior or am I missing something? > > Also is it a good idea to have such a design where we update the Hbase > table directly with a Phoenix table/view created on top of it? We had to > choose this design due to the backup/snapshot features Hbase provides. I > could not find any such mechanism in Phoenix so not sure what the best > approach is here. > > Looking forward to your ideas. > > Thanks in advance, > Udit > > > > > > > > >
