Adding a Column Family to a Replica

Changes to the structure of a source table are not automatically replicated to replica table. You must complete the following steps to add a column family to a replica.

When an entire table is being replicated, new column families are not automatically created at the replica. However, once you add the new column family to the replica then updates to the new column family will immediately start being replicated.

When you are replicating a subset of column families and columns, you must add the new column family to the replica and also run the copytable utility to initially populate the new column family in the replica table.

  1. Pause replication by running the maprcli table replica pause command.
  2. Add the new column family to the replica by running the maprcli table replica edit command.
  3. If the replica includes a subset of column families and columns from the source table, copy the data from the new column family from the source table into the replica by using the CopyTable utility. Use the -columns parameter to specify the name of the column family.
  4. Resume replication by running the maprcli table replica resume command.
Parent topic: Managing Table Replication