Thanks Shahab for the reply. I was also thinking in the same way. Could you able to guide me through any reference which can confirm this understanding?
Regards, Joarder Kamal On 27 June 2013 23:24, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you will need to update your hash function and redistribute data. > As far as I know this has been on of the drawbacks of this approach (and > the SemaText library) > > Regards, > Shahab > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Joarder KAMAL <joard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > May be a simple question to answer for the experienced HBase users and > > developers: > > > > If I use hash partitioning to evenly distribute write workloads into my > > region servers and later add a new region server to scale or split an > > existing region, then do I need to change my hash function and re-shuffle > > all the existing data in between all the region servers (old and new)? > Or, > > is there any better solution for this? Any guidance would be very much > > helpful. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Regards, > > Joarder Kamal > > >