Intel's HBase Panthera has an Avro document store builtin - another option: https://github.com/intel-hadoop/hbase-0.94-panthera
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > > > > -- Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney [email protected] datasyndrome.com
