Might be best to look up the "CAP theorem". In that terms HBase is a CP store (consistent and partition tolerant). HBase will probably provide some eventual consistency soon via HBASE-10070.
-- Lars ________________________________ From: Vimal Jain <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 12:02 AM Subject: Re: Eventual consistency in Hbase You mean Hbase is not an "eventual consistent" ? Then what kind of consistency it provides ? Where can i get more information about different consistency models ? On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Salabhanjika S <[email protected]>wrote: > https://hbase.apache.org/book/architecture.html > > "Strongly consistent reads/writes: HBase is not an "eventually > consistent" DataStore. This makes it very suitable for tasks such as > high-speed counter aggregation." > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Vimal Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I heard that Hbase provides eventual consistency. > > What does that mean ? > > Where can i get more information on different consistency model and how > > hbase achieves eventual consistency ? > > > > -- > > Thanks and Regards, > > Vimal Jain > -- Thanks and Regards, Vimal Jain
