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HBASE-15985 clarify promises about edits from replication in ref guide 

Signed-off-by: Andrew Purtell <apurtell@apache.org>
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Sean Busbey 2016-06-07 17:16:55 -05:00
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@ -1320,6 +1320,14 @@ The master cluster relies on randomization to attempt to balance the stream of r
It is expected that the slave cluster has storage capacity to hold the replicated data, as well as any data it is responsible for ingesting.
If a slave cluster does run out of room, or is inaccessible for other reasons, it throws an error and the master retains the WAL and retries the replication at intervals.
.Consistency Across Replicated Clusters
[WARNING]
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How your application builds on top of the HBase API matters when replication is in play. HBase's replication system provides at-least-once delivery of client edits for an enabled column family to each configured destination cluster. In the event of failure to reach a given destination, the replication system will retry sending edits in a way that might repeat a given message. Further more, there is not a guaranteed order of delivery for client edits. In the event of a RegionServer failing, recovery of the replication queue happens independent of recovery of the individual regions that server was previously handling. This means that it is possible for the not-yet-replicated edits to be serviced by a RegionServer that is currently slower to replicate than the one that handles edits from after the failure.
The combination of these two properties (at-least-once delivery and the lack of message ordering) means that some destination clusters may end up in a different state if your application makes use of operations that are not idempotent, e.g. Increments.
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.Terminology Changes
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