On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Joarder KAMAL <[email protected]> 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. > You do not need to change your hash function. When you add a new regionserver, the balancer will move some of the existing regions to the new host. St.Ack
