Hi ccleve, I'd definitely urge you to try out Kiji -- we who work on it think it's a pretty good fit for this specific use case. If you've got further questions about Kiji and how to use it, please send them to me, or ask the kiji user mailing list: http://www.kiji.org/getinvolved#Mailing_Lists
cheers, - Aaron 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? > > > > > > >
