Hi Pablo, It's currently not possible (like you saw).
What's your use case? Maybe there's different/better way to achieve what you want to do? J-D On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Pablo Musa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > I want to insert new columns into a row:fam and increment 2 of them > atomically. > In other words, I am using columns as entries and I want to count them and > their > sizes. > > For example, I want to insert these new columns: > row1:f1:c1 = h_v_j > row1:f1:c2 = g_r_w > row1:f1:c3 = z_l_p > row1:f1:c4 = n_m_j > > *The values are fixed size information which I used '_' as separator above. > > But I also want to keep track of how many columns do I have and sum one of > the information. > row1:f1:count = Increment(4) > row1:f1:size = Increment(j+w+p+j) > > I can do them separately, send the puts and then send the increments, but > I would like to know if it is possible to do it atomically. > > I did some search and found the link below, but it only talks about > put/delete. > Why not adding increment? > http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/RowMutations.html > > I don't know if it is clear enough. > > Thanks, > Pablo
