Re: Setting TTL at the row level

[Josh <jo...@gmail.com>]

Thanks guys for the replies, I missed the cell level TTL feature!

Josh

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Anoop John <an...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes we have per cell level TTL setting from 0.98.9  release onwards.
> That should be the best way for ur usecase.
> See Mutation#setTTL(long)
>
> -Anoop-
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 2:17 PM, yonghu <yo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I did not quite understand what you mean by "row timestamp"? As far as I
> > know, timestamp is associated to each data version (cell). Will you store
> > multiple data versions in a single column?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:35 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari <
> > jean-marc@spaggiari.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Why not using the cell level ttl?
> >>
> >> Le 2017-06-21 2:35 PM, "Vladimir Rodionov" <vl...@gmail.com> a
> >> écrit :
> >>
> >> > Should work
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:31 AM, <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Hi all,
> >> > >
> >> > > I know it is possible to set TTL in HBase at the column family
> level -
> >> > > which makes HBase delete rows in the column family when they reach a
> >> > > certain age.
> >> > >
> >> > > Rather than expire a row after it's reached a certain age, I would
> like
> >> > to
> >> > > expire each specific row at a specific time in the future (I.e. set
> >> > expiry
> >> > > at the row level, rather than at the column family level). To
> achieve
> >> > this,
> >> > > I am planning on setting the column family TTL to something very
> short
> >> > > (e.g. 1 minute) and then when I write my rows, I will set the row
> >> > timestamp
> >> > > to [current datetime + time until I want row to expire]. Since HBase
> >> uses
> >> > > row timestamp for TTL, this should let me effectively set TTL on the
> >> row
> >> > > level.
> >> > >
> >> > > Will this work? Is there any reason not to do this?
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks!
> >> > > Josh
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
>