In the recent blog post about the Apache HBase Write Path, we talked about the write-ahead-log (WAL), which plays an important role in preventing data loss should a HBase region server failure occur. This blog post describes how HBase prevents data loss after a region server crashes, using an especially critical process for recovering lost updates called log splitting.
Log splitting
As we mentioned in the write path blog post,
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