Hello, Im trying to understand what excatly Phoenix row timestamp is I created 2 tables for test:
CREATE TABLE test_row_timestamp1( id varchar NOT NULL, created TIMESTAMP NOT NULL, foo varchar, CONSTRAINT PK PRIMARY KEY( id, created ROW_TIMESTAMP ) ) CREATE TABLE test_row_timestamp2( id varchar NOT NULL, created TIMESTAMP NOT NULL, foo varchar, CONSTRAINT PK PRIMARY KEY( id, created ) ) upsert into test_row_timestamp1 (id, created, foo) values ('1', now(), 'bar'); upsert into test_row_timestamp2 (id, created, foo) values ('1', now(), 'bar'); And result is: hbase(main):004:0> scan 'TEST_ROW_TIMESTAMP1', { LIMIT=>10} ROW COLUMN+CELL 1\x00\x80\x00\x01Z\xB4\x80:6\x00\x00\x00\x00 column=0:FOO, timestamp=1489086986806, value=bar 1\x00\x80\x00\x01Z\xB4\x80:6\x00\x00\x00\x00 column=0:_0, timestamp=1489086986806, value=x hbase(main):005:0> scan 'TEST_ROW_TIMESTAMP2', { LIMIT=>10} ROW COLUMN+CELL 1\x00\x80\x00\x01Z\xB4\x80M\xE6\x00\x00\x00\x00 column=0:FOO, timestamp=1489086991848, value=bar 1\x00\x80\x00\x01Z\xB4\x80M\xE6\x00\x00\x00\x00 column=0:_0, timestamp=1489086991848, value=x Both tables has the same row key pattern id + 0x00 + timestamp I expect that test_row_timestamp1 will utilise native hbase timestamp that is part of "real" hbase key. PS. Examples at https://phoenix.apache.org/rowtimestamp.html <https://phoenix.apache.org/rowtimestamp.html> are broken