I don't think there is any performance benefit as such. From the source code, it appears that the only use is to avoid accidentally updating / mutating a table that you want to keep immutable. So - setting the read only flag will prevent accidental updates to that table.
--Suraj On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Homer Strong <[email protected]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, are there any performance benefits from setting > READONLY to true on tables? I've checked out the HBase book and > Definitive Guide and the API docs, but none of them go beyond a basic > description of READONLY behavior (which seems to be pretty simple :)). > > Homer >
