[jira] Created: (HBASE-587) Add auto-primary-key feature

["Bryan Duxbury (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Add auto-primary-key feature
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                 Key: HBASE-587
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-587
             Project: Hadoop HBase
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
            Priority: Trivial


Some folks seem to be interested in having their row keys automatically generated in a unique fashion. Maybe we could do something like allow the user to specify they want an automatic key, and then we'll generate a GUID that's unique for that table and return it as part of the commit. Not sure what the mechanics would look like exactly, but seems doable and it's going to be a more prevalent use case as people start to put data into HBase first without touching another system or pushing data without a natural unique primary key.

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