Your understanding is correct and you can actually put/delete to the same table on both cluster. It is called master-master setup(aka active-active in RDMS).
The only issue is about the sequence of transactions. I am not sure how the timestamp works to ensure the same order from client can be ensured by two cluster Demai on the run On Mar 8, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Koert Kuipers <[email protected]> wrote: > do i understand it correctly that it is safe to have 2 hbase clusters > replicate to each other (so in both directions)? > > and as long as an update (put/delete) arrives at only one cluster this > setup will function correctly? > > not entirely sure about situation where updates get routed to both > clusters, but i see no immediate harm if the operations are idempotent... > > thanks! koert
