I'm curious, if you are expiring a lot of data, does your table grow? If not, could you fit it in to a mysql instance instead?
As for pre-splitting tables, if you have a really large data set, how would you manage this? One of our tables has 700 regions, and we didnt pre-split. I didnt really know the distribution of keys before I started inserting data, and I'd rather just let HBase do the right thing. -ryan On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > Online merge is a bit dangerous. Lots of applications require that the > table be set up pre-split. This is probably more common than the need for > merging. > > Having such a pre-split table collapse before it is full would be a > disaster. > > It should be pretty easy to script taking a few regions off-line and then > nuking them. > > 2011/2/8 Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]> > >> An automatic online merge feature would be a nice contribution too. >> >
