>> Is that crazy idea? kind of :)
Why do not use cell's timestamps and column family TTL for that purpose? Set explicitly KV's timestamp for every data point you insert to be equals to a data point's timestamp. Your data will be automatically purged during compaction on TTL expiration. -Vlad On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Eric Owhadi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Hbaseers, > > When dealing with time series, one can imagine that deleting row older than > a specific date threashold would be a common use case. > > If I am not mistaken, the only options available today to perform this > aging delete is to first mark these row with a delete operation that will > set tombstone marker, and then major compaction will take care of removing > the data. > > However this tombstoning is consuming valuable resource and I was > wondering if we could instead pass a parameter to the major compact command > and tell it, BTW, any rowkey lower than xxxxxxxx, consider it tomb stoned, > so delete it. > > Is that crazy idea? > > Regards, > > Eric >
