Hi, Though a very old post, just in case anyone comes looking for similar problem.
I'm using Hbase version : 1.2.0-cdh5.11.2 I was facing similar issue(Row was not getting deleted) when I used single quotes for row key as below deleteall '<table>', '<key>' It worked fine when I used double quotes, as shown below deleteall '<table>',"'<key>" Thanks & Regards, Manoj
