Avro and Trevni files do not support record update or delete. For large changing datasets you might use Kiji (http://www.kiji.org/) to store Avro data in HBase.
Doug On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:00 PM, ccleve <[email protected]> wrote: > I've gone through the documentation, but haven't been able to get a definite > answer: is Avro, or specifically Trevni, only for read-only data? > > Is it possible to update or delete records? > > If records can be deleted, is there any code that will merge row sets to get > rid of the unused space? > > >
