Behaviour of HBase when setReturnResults(false) was called on input Append and Increment requests: <ul> <li>HBase 1.4.12 <ul> <li>append(Append): null <li>increment(Increment): Result.create(new Cell[0]) <li>batch(Append): IllegalStateException <li>batch(Increment): IllegalStateException </ul> <li>HBase 2.2.3 <p>all operations on both Table and AsyncTable return a Result equal to Result.create(new Cell[0]) </ul>