Hello, I'm trying to understand how Delete works in HBase 1.2.0 on a table with Max_versions=1. I have gone thru the documentation and I believe I now understand how it works but I would appreciate if someone can confirm my findings.
1. delete.addColumn(byte[] family, byte[] qualifier); Table.delete(delete) etc only sets a tombstone marker. It doesn't delete the actual value stored. 2. After step 1, if I do this: Get get = new Get(Bytes.toBytes(id)); The deleted value iin Step 1 is still returned. This will continue to happen until a major compaction removes the tombstone marker. 3. As a workaround I have tried delete.addColumn*s*(byte[] family, byte[] qualifier); This seems to behave better and it looks like the field value is deleted immediately. However this still suffers from the masking problem, where if a subsequent PUT follows in the same milllisecond, the PUT will be masked. I believe this issue is resolved in 2.0 Many thanks Prashant
