> From: Jason Rutherglen <[email protected]>
> > With the new replication feature
> > of 0.92 edits are streamed from one cluster
> > to another
> 
> Interesting, what does 'cluster' mean in this context?

Cluster in this context is a typical data center deployment: HDFS + ZK + HBase 
master(s) + HBase regionservers.

> Typically with MySQL one would have 1 master (for writes)
> and N slave servers (for reads).  Is this a similar use case for
> HBase replication?

I think you are thinking more along the lines of HBASE-2357: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2357 (Hmm... I forgot I took on 
this issue...)

What I'm talking about is HBASE-1295, or 
http://hbase.apache.org/replication.html .

What I personally would use 0.92 replication for is:
  - To deploy a service in multiple geographies and sync global state 
(eventually); but within the geography take advantage of HBase's consistency 
properties
  - To stream a subset of important data to a small reserve cluster for 
disaster recovery

   - Andy

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