Thanks Maysam. I am trying out Omid to see if it will fit my needs.

As I told you I am writing to hbase from a map reduce jobs. If my commit
and rollback is around a reducer task then it will be quite straight
forward. But if the commit should happen if all tasks of the M/R job
succeed(which is what I would want, because if some reducer tasks
succeed and some fail, it will not be possible to rerun partial data),
it gets tricky. 
Am I on the wrong track?

Thanks,
Deepika

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 11:44 -0700, Maysam Yabandeh wrote:
> Hi Deepika,
> 
> Omid provides Snapshot Isolation (SI), which is a well-known isolation 
> guarantee in database systems such as Oracle. In short, each transaction 
> reads from a consistent snapshot that does not include partial changes by 
> concurrent (or failed) transactions. SI also prevents write-write conflicts 
> between concurrent transactions. The overhead of Omid on HBase is negligible 
> and does not require any changes into HBase, with the only exception of HBase 
> garbage collection algorithm that is replaced via a coprocessor. hbase-trx, 
> on the other hand, does not provide read snapshots and is not safe with 
> client failures. You can find a more detailed comparison in the Omid wiki 
> page:
> https://github.com/yahoo/omid/wiki
> 
> Cheers
> - Maysam Yabandeh
> 
> On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:49 PM, Deepika Khera wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have some map reduce jobs that write to Hbase. I am trying to pick a
> > library that could provide transactional support for Hbase. I looked at
> > Omid and hbase-trx .
> > 
> > Could you please provide me with a comparison between the two so I can
> > make the right choice. 
> > Are there any other ways to do this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Deepika
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 


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