There is quiet a bit on this topic in the book: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html
Grep 'split'. If that does not answer your question, please tell what is missing so we can fix it. St.Ack On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Neerja Bhatnagar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone please point me to a link that explains how HBase splits tables > and regions. I am unable to find anything beyond this - > > Tables in HBase are initially created with one region by default. For bulk > imports, this means that all clients will write to the same region until it > is large enough to split and become distributed across the cluster. > > Cheers, Neerja >
