Author: stack
Date: Fri Jan 28 04:39:04 2011
New Revision: 1064452
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1064452&view=rev
Log:
Added link to comic and to opentsdb
Modified:
hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml
Modified: hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml?rev=1064452&r1=1064451&r2=1064452&view=diff
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--- hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml (original)
+++ hbase/trunk/src/docbkx/book.xml Fri Jan 28 04:39:04 2011
@@ -1277,6 +1277,20 @@ of all regions.
up in javadocs.</para>
</chapter>
+ <chapter xml:id="schema">
+ <title>HBase and Schema Design</title>
+ <section>
+ <title>
+ Monotonically Increasing Row Keys; e.g. timeseries data
+ </title>
+ <para>See this comic by IKai Lan on why monotically increasing row keys are
+ problematic in BigTable-like datastores:
+ <link
xlink:href="http://ikaisays.com/2011/01/25/app-engine-datastore-tip-monotonically-increasing-values-are-bad/";>monotonically
increasing values are bad</link></para>
+ <para>See <link xlink:href="http://opentsdb.net/";>OpenTSDB</link> as a way
for managing
+ timeseries data on top of HBase</para>
+ </section>
+ </chapter>
+
<chapter xml:id="hbase_metrics">
<title>Metrics</title>
<para>See <link xlink:href="metrics.html">Metrics</link>.
