A region split happens when a family grows bigger than 256MB, if you have less than that in a whole table then it will be hosted in a single region.
J-D On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Adrian Popescu <popescuadrian2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've observed that when creating secondary indexes their corresponding tables > are not necessarily uniformly partitioned into region splits (e.g. one region > table has 100MB, another one has 200MB); the solution that I found is to > force a split on the table. However, my belief was that the load balancing of > the data should be done automatically by HBase. Is any particular reason that > the balancing of the data doesn't happen automatically on secondary index > tables or do I miss some setting ? > > Thank you, > Adrian > > >
