There is currently no native support for renaming two tables in one atomic action.
FYI On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com> wrote: > I use Spark to take an old table, clean it up to create an RDD of cleaned > data. What I’d like to do is write all of the data to a new table in HBase, > then rename the table to the old name. If possible it could be done by > changing an alias to point to the new table as long as all external code > uses the alias, or by a 2 table rename operation. But I don’t see how to do > this for HBase. I am dealing with a lot of data so don’t want to do table > modifications with deletes and upserts, this would be incredibly slow. > Furthermore I don’t want to disable the table for more than a tiny span of > time. > > Is it possible to have 2 tables and rename both in an atomic action, or > change some alias to point to the new table in an atomic action. If not > what is the quickest way to achieve this to minimize time disabled.
