Hi there- If you're absolutely new to Hbase, you might want to check out the Hbase refGuide in the architecture, performance, and troubleshooting chapters first.
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html In terms of determining why your region servers "just die", I think you need to read the background information then provide more information on your cluster and what you're trying to do because although there are a lot of people on this dist-list that want to help, you're not giving folks a whole lot to go on. On 1/17/13 12:24 PM, "Chalcy Raja" <chalcy.r...@careerbuilder.com> wrote: >Hi HBASE Gurus, > > > >I am Chalcy Raja and I joined the hbase group yesterday. I am already a >member of hive and sqoop user groups. Looking forward to learn and share >information about hbase here! > > > >Have a question: We have a cluster where we run hive jobs and also >hbase. There are stability issues like region servers just die. We are >looking into fine tuning. When I read about performance and also heard >from another user is separate mapreduce from hbase. How do I do that? >If I understand that as running tasktrackers on some and hbase region >servers on some, then we will run into data locality issues and I believe >it will perform poorly. > > > >Definitely I am not the only one running into this issue. Any thoughts >on how to resolve this issue? > > > >Thanks, > >Chalcy