> Fixing this is likely quite difficult since it requires distributed > transactions. It would also typically kill update performance because of > the distributed transaction problem.
Hmm... Looks like it's in the works? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1295 On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Ted Dunning <tdunn...@maprtech.com> wrote: > Fixing this is likely quite difficult since it requires distributed > transactions. It would also typically kill update performance because of > the distributed transaction problem. > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jason Rutherglen < > jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Yep, really. The replication is [only] on the HDFS-level. For HBase, this >> is >> > not much of a problem as long as the requests are not strongly skewed >> > towards one region (this requires good consideration from users when >> > choosing row keys), but for search this could be a real issue. >> >> I think this can be solved rather easily? Or is there an underlying >> design rationale? >