You can use off peak compaction: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4463
See also http://www.slideshare.net/cloudera/hbasecon-2013-compaction-improvements-in-apache-hbase On Feb 2, 2014, at 1:14 PM, yanivG <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am using hbase 0.94.6 version. We are developing a java application and > using it as our storage for a high load web application. > The average ration is about 500 requests per second. > From time to time I see high latency (more then 300 ms!!!) when trying to > store data object within hbase (using Put). > > We disabled major compaction and set it to run manually once a week. > By examining the logs during those high latency , I see that major > compaction was executed. > I saw a post > (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nosql-databases/YwE894gq1qM) which > explains it. > The question is how can I avoid this? Should I ran the major compaction once > a day in low load hours? will it eliminate the sporadic major compaction? > Thanks, > Y > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-hbase.679495.n3.nabble.com/Major-compaction-issues-in-hbase-tp4055592.html > Sent from the HBase Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
