[HBASE-7827] Improve the speed of Hbase Thirft Batch mutation for deletes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.94.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.94.6, 0.95.0
• Component/s: Thrift
• Labels: Hbase Thrift
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Shivendra Pratap Singh
• Reporter: Shivendra Pratap Singh
• Created: 12/Feb/13 02:17
• Updated: 05/Apr/13 01:00
• Resolved: 12/Mar/13 03:59

Description

A batch mutate operation does both puts and deletes. Batch mutate for put uses table.put(puts) however batch mutate for delete loops over all deletes and calls table.delete for every single cell. This causes delete performance to degrade.