You might want to look into bulk loading.
-Joey On May 28, 2011 9:47 AM, "Qing Yan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I realized myself RS flush to HDFS is not designed to do incremental > changes. So there is no way around of WAL? man..just wish it can run a bit > faster:-P > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Qing Yan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ok, thanks for the explaination. so data loss is normal in this case. >> Yeah , I did a "kill -9". I did wait till the RS get reassigned and >> actually let process B keep retring over the night .. >> >> Is WAL the only way to guarantee data safety in hbase? We want high insert >> rate though. >> Is there a middle ground? e.g. a sync operation to flush RS to HDFS will be >> perfect! >> >> >>> >>
