Ah darn, I was just trying to experiment changing my schema to support 1000's of columns.... however once I did that I started running out of memory again. :-(
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:19 PM, stack <[email protected]> wrote: > yonatan maman wrote: >> >> I'm about to design my HBase table, and I wonder : >> 1) what is the max number of column family that is still consider >> reasonable? 100 , 1K, 1M ... more ? >> > > Keep it small I'd say for now until we do more work in server parallellizing > querying of different column families. I'd suggest low tens. > >> 2) what is a reasonable number of columns per column family ? 100, 1K , >> 1M >> .. more ? > > Low hundreds till we fix the bug that has us slow when lots of columns. > > St.Ack > >
