I don’t know if I would say that… I read Marcelo’s question of “if the cluster is up, even though a RS may be down, can I still insert records in to HBase?”
So if the cluster is up, then you can insert records in to HBase even though you lost a RS that was handing a specific region. But because he talked about syncing nodes… I could be misreading his initial question… > On Apr 7, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Serega Sheypak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If I have an application that writes to a HBase cluster, can I count that > the cluster will always available to receive writes? > No, it's CP, not AP system. >> so everything get in sync when the other nodes get up again > There is no hinted backoff, It's not Cassandra. > > > > 2015-04-07 14:48 GMT+02:00 Marcelo Valle (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) < > [email protected]>: > >> If I have an application that writes to a HBase cluster, can I count that >> the cluster will always available to receive writes? >> I might not be able to read if a region server which handles a range of >> keys is down, but will I be able to keep writing to other nodes, so >> everything get in sync when the other nodes get up again? >> Or I might get no write availability for a while? The opinions expressed here are mine, while they may reflect a cognitive thought, that is purely accidental. Use at your own risk. Michael Segel michael_segel (AT) hotmail.com
