It might be interesting to share that here, just in case someone else is facing the same usecase?
JM 2013/1/10, Leonid Fedotov <[email protected]>: > Jack, > yes, this is very interesting to know your setup details. > Could you please provide more information? > Or we can take this off the list if you like… > > Thank you! > > Sincerely, > Leonid Fedotov > > On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Jack Levin wrote: > >> We stored about 1 billion images into hbase with file size up to 10MB. >> Its been running for close to 2 years without issues and serves >> delivery of images for Yfrog and ImageShack. If you have any >> questions about the setup, I would be glad to answer them. >> >> -Jack >> >> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I have done extensive testing and have found that blobs don't belong in >>> the >>> databases but are rather best left out on the file system. Andrew >>> outlined >>> issues that you'll face and not to mention IO issues when compaction >>> occurs >>> over large files. >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I meant this to say "a few really large values" >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Consider if the split threshold is 2 GB but your one row contains 10 >>>>> GB >>>> as >>>>> really large value. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> - Andy >>>> >>>> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet >>>> Hein >>>> (via Tom White) >>>> > >
