This is a good article to understand timestamps in HBase - worth reading: http://outerthought.org/blog/417-ot.html --Suraj
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Hari Sreekumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to use custom unique values in place of timestamps for my > application. What are the possible issues with this? I know versioning > works > great if we use system timestamp, but I remember seeing issues when using > other timestamps. I tried looking into the issues.apache.org page, but it > seems the version numbers are not tagged correctly. I just wanted to > confirm > if there are any well-known outstanding issues with timestamp versioning in > my version 0.20.6. Which kind of stamps have been tried before and are > known > to work correctly all the time? > > Thanks, > Hari >
