Analysis of HBase Write-Ahead Log (WAL) Mechanism and Source Code Call Chain
The article explains HBase’s write‑ahead‑log architecture, detailing how client put/delete requests travel through RPC to the RegionServer, are processed by MultiRowMutationService, written to the WAL via FSHLog.append and sync, and finally stored in MemStore, while describing durability options and the underlying source‑code call chain.
