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Nick Dimiduk commented on HBASE-12311:
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Why is it difficult to tag blocks with metadata? We've extended the block
header before.
> Version stats in HFiles?
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> Key: HBASE-12311
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12311
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Brainstorming
> Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
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> In HBASE-9778 I basically punted the decision on whether doing repeated
> scanner.next() called instead of the issueing (re)seeks to the user.
> I think we can do better.
> One way do that is maintain simple stats of what the maximum number of
> versions we've seen for any row/col combination and store these in the
> HFile's metadata (just like the timerange, oldest Put, etc).
> Then we estimate fairly accurately whether we have to expect lots of versions
> (i.e. seek between columns is better) or not (in which case we'd issue
> repeated next()'s).
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