It depends. If you do not need to perform rangescans along (prefixes of) your row keys, you can prefix the row key by a hash of the row key. That will give you a more or less random distribution of the keys and hence not hit the same region server over and over.
You'll probably also want to presplit your table then. -- Lars ----- Original Message ----- From: Ramasubramanian <ramasubramanian.naraya...@gmail.com> To: user@hbase.apache.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:39 AM Subject: Regarding rowkey Hi, What can be used as rowkey to improve performance while loading into hbase? Currently I am having sequence. It takes some 11 odd minutes to load 1 million record with 147 columns. Regards, Rams
