"Strongly consistent reads/writes: HBase is not an "eventually consistent" 
DataStore. This makes it very suitable for tasks such as high-speed counter 
aggregation"

http://hbase.apache.org/book/architecture.html


Am I missing something ?

- Sri



>________________________________
> From: Ian Varley <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
>Sent: Friday, 7 December 2012, 23:49
>Subject: Re: PROD/DR - Replication
> 
>Juan,
>
>No; that would mean every single write to HBase has to wait for an ACK from a 
>remote data center, which would decrease your cluster throughput dramatically. 
>If you need that, consider other database solutions.
>
>Ian
>
>On Dec 7, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Juan P. wrote:
>
>I was reading up on HBase Replication and wanted to make sure I'm not
>missing something.
>
>Given that replication happens asynchronously the replication strategy has
>an "eventually consistent" policy.
>
>I was considering using this feature for Production / Disaster Recovery
>setup.
>
>Is there a way to enforce Consistency so that if my PROD environment should
>ever go down, I can 100% sure that DR will be completely up to date?
>
>Thank you,
>Juan
>
>
>
>

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