A scan should *never* should you expired cells (unless you're doing a "raw" scan).
If cells haven't been collected, yet, they'll be filtered by the scan. In any case the expired cells are not returned by the scan. Can you tell us more details? The scan code, the timestamps you get, a describe of your column families, etc. Thanks. -- Lars ________________________________ From: Tom Brown <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 3:59 PM Subject: When does compaction actually occur? I have a table that holds rotating data. It has a TTL of 3600. For some reason, when I scan the table I still get old cells that are much older than that TTL. I have tried issuing a compaction request via the web UI, but that didn't seem to do anything. Am I misunderstanding the data model used by HBase? Is there anything else I can check to verify the functionality of my integration? I am using HBase 0.92 with Hadoop 1.0.2. Thanks in advance! --Tom
