I think you need to think outside of the box... I've thought about it a little more and while there's validity to indexing at the RS, there's a bit more of a headache.
But I think you've been too dismissive of looking at the index at the table level and not at the region level. On Aug 14, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Lars, > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:08 PM, lars hofhansl <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yep. It's not simple if (and only if) you data is changing a lot. Michael is >> right though, that it is simple problem if your data is static. > > Yeah, a good option for that are MR processes that emit in one shot > HFiles for bulk import of infrequent updates into the primary table > and all projections/materializations/indices. We have an application > that does this in production. > >> Todd Lipcon and I were talking last week. And he mentioned primitives like >> logged updates,operations that will eventually complete, and as long as >> log-replay can be forced before a read operation they can be used for >> consistent indexes. > > Back to HBASE-3340 again. :-) > > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet > Hein (via Tom White) >
