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Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week
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Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week

by Sudarshan Kadambi, Xun (Brian) Wu
March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
308 pages
8h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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The HBase read path

When a read for a key is issued from the HBase client, as with writes, the client needs to query the META table to identify the RegionServer that contains the data for the given key.

Once the RegionServer receives the read request, it looks it up in the Memstore. However, this by itself is insufficient. The contents of the Memstore might have been flushed to disk by the time the read request arrives, so the RegionServer has to look for the key in the HFile that the Memstore contents were previously flushed into. However, it's not sufficient to look at the most recent HFile for the region since writes for that key could have arrived at any time in the past, so the RegionServer has to look for the key in every HFile that ...

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