[HBASE-4210] Allow coprocessor to interact with batches per region sent from a client

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.94.6, 0.95.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.94.6, 0.95.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

Adds a pre/post CP hooks to deal with batches of Puts and Deletes rather than individual Put/Delete.
The preBatchMutate hook will be called after aquiring locks on all the rows which are involved in a batch.
Also by this time the timestamps for Mutation will be applied at RS. So from this hook CP can get the batch of Mutations getting applied and their timestamps which will be getting applied
CP also can bypass any of the Mutation from getting applied by setting its OperationStatus as SUCCESS/FAILURE.
postBatchMutate hook will be called after write to memstore and append and sync to WAL.

• Assignee: Anoop Sam John
• Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
• Created: 17/Aug/11 04:04
• Updated: 16/Apr/13 03:47
• Resolved: 27/Feb/13 05:10

Description

Currently the coprocessor write hooks -

{pre|post} {Put|Delete}

- are strictly one row|cell operations.
It might be a good idea to allow a coprocessor to deal with batches of puts and deletes as they arrive from the client.

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-7774 RegionObserver.prePut() cannot rely on the Put's timestamps, can even cause data loss