Using timestamps other than system time?

[Hari Sreekumar <hs...@clickable.com>]

Hi,

I plan to use custom unique values in place of timestamps for my
application. What are the possible issues with this? I know versioning works
great if we use system timestamp, but I remember seeing issues when using
other timestamps. I tried looking into the issues.apache.org page, but it
seems the version numbers are not tagged correctly. I just wanted to confirm
if there are any well-known outstanding issues with timestamp versioning in
my version 0.20.6. Which kind of stamps have been tried before and are known
to work correctly all the time?

Thanks,
Hari

Re: Using timestamps other than system time?

[Suraj Varma <sv...@gmail.com>]

This is a good article to understand timestamps in HBase - worth reading:
http://outerthought.org/blog/417-ot.html
--Suraj

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Hari Sreekumar <hs...@clickable.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I plan to use custom unique values in place of timestamps for my
> application. What are the possible issues with this? I know versioning
> works
> great if we use system timestamp, but I remember seeing issues when using
> other timestamps. I tried looking into the issues.apache.org page, but it
> seems the version numbers are not tagged correctly. I just wanted to
> confirm
> if there are any well-known outstanding issues with timestamp versioning in
> my version 0.20.6. Which kind of stamps have been tried before and are
> known
> to work correctly all the time?
>
> Thanks,
> Hari
>