Question - Talk about the different tombstone markers used for deletion purposes in HBase.
Answer -
This Big Data interview question dives into your knowledge of HBase and its working.
There are three main tombstone markers used for deletion in HBase. They are-
- Family Delete Marker – For marking all the columns of a column family.
- Version Delete Marker – For marking a single version of a single column.
- Column Delete Marker – For marking all the versions of a single column.