[HBASE-3967] Support deletes in HFileOutputFormat based bulk import mechanism

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: mapreduce
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kannan Muthukkaruppan
• Created: 09/Jun/11 00:54
• Updated: 12/Jun/22 18:34
• Resolved: 09/Apr/13 06:29

Description

During bulk imports, it'll be useful to be able to do delete mutations (either to delete data that already exists in HBase or was inserted earlier during this run of the import).

For example, we have a use case, where we are processing a log of data which may have both inserts and deletes in the mix and we want to upload that into HBase using the bulk import mechanism.