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  1. HBase
  2. HBASE-5229

Provide basic building blocks for "multi-row" local transactions.

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 0.94.0
    • Client, regionserver
    • None
    • Reviewed

    Description

      In the final iteration, this issue provides a generalized, public mutateRowsWithLocks method on HRegion, that can be used by coprocessors to implement atomic operations efficiently.
      Coprocessors are already region aware, which makes this is a good pairing of APIs. This feature is by design not available to the client via the HTable API.

      It took a long time to arrive at this and I apologize for the public exposure of my (erratic in retrospect) thought processes.

      Was:
      HBase should provide basic building blocks for multi-row local transactions. Local means that we do this by co-locating the data. Global (cross region) transactions are not discussed here.

      After a bit of discussion two solutions have emerged:
      1. Keep the row-key for determining grouping and location and allow efficient intra-row scanning. A client application would then model tables as HBase-rows.
      2. Define a prefix-length in HTableDescriptor that defines a grouping of rows. Regions will then never be split inside a grouping prefix.

      #1 is true to the current storage paradigm of HBase.
      #2 is true to the current client side API.

      I will explore these two with sample patches here.

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      Was:
      As discussed (at length) on the dev mailing list with the HBASE-3584 and HBASE-5203 committed, supporting atomic cross row transactions within a region becomes simple.
      I am aware of the hesitation about the usefulness of this feature, but we have to start somewhere.

      Let's use this jira for discussion, I'll attach a patch (with tests) momentarily to make this concrete.

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        1. 5229.txt
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          Lars Hofhansl
        2. 5229-endpoint.txt
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          Lars Hofhansl
        3. 5229-final.txt
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          Lars Hofhansl
        4. 5229-multiRow.txt
          29 kB
          Lars Hofhansl
        5. 5229-multiRow-v2.txt
          25 kB
          Lars Hofhansl
        6. 5229-seekto.txt
          7 kB
          Lars Hofhansl
        7. 5229-seekto-v2.txt
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          Lars Hofhansl

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