Here is what I am trying to figure out: in the same table, if cell A is updated after cell B, is it guaranteed that the time stamp of cell A is always bigger than the time stamp of cell B, even cell A and cell B could be stored on different machines (therefore these two machines might out of sync on time)?
The reason I am asking this question is: I want to use time stamp to order the updates by time. These updates are issued from multiple machines. I was thinking to use global counter (stored in a separated HBase table) but I guess that counter table might become a hot spot since each update needs to update this table. My general problem is: I want to sort the updates stored in Hbase from multiple machines. Please let me know if you have good thoughts. Thanks a lot Senqiang
