Thank you! Your reply is very helpful. At present, I will redesign the architecture by considering your explanation.
Merry Christmas, Hyunsik Choi On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:08 AM, stack <[email protected]> wrote: > Hyunsik Choi wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm a newbie of hbase. I wonder how is Hbase scalable to increasing >> columns? >> Do I regard column as just like rows? For instance, I will design a >> data model that increases in columns as rows grow, like a square >> matrix. The number of rows may be at least 100 billion. Is it >> appropriate to Hbase architecture design? >> > > In theory, we should be able to go there. In practise, we've had but > limited experience with tables in low billions of rows and there is a flaw > that limits the number of columns in a family (HBASE-867) that should be > fixed in the release after the pending 0.19.0. > > St.Ack >
