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Michael Segel commented on HBASE-12853:
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On second thought rather than try to automate the number of regions to be used
in the prefix, it may just be easier to define a parameter that contains the
number of parallel buckets. (Apologies for using a very loose terminology.) We
could say buckets or parallelization factor.
We may have 100 RS but only want to use a parallel factor of 10 which could be
enough to alleviate the hot spotting. It also makes it easier if the size of
the cluster is relatively dynamic with the adding and subtracting of RS.
Also apologies if this concept has been already raised.
> distributed write pattern to replace ad hoc 'salting'
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> Key: HBASE-12853
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12853
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Michael Segel
> Priority: Minor
>
> In reviewing HBASE-11682 (Description of Hot Spotting), one of the issues is
> that while 'salting' alleviated regional hot spotting, it increased the
> complexity required to utilize the data.
> Through the use of coprocessors, it should be possible to offer a method
> which distributes the data on write across the cluster and then manages
> reading the data returning a sort ordered result set, abstracting the
> underlying process.
> On table creation, a flag is set to indicate that this is a parallel table.
> On insert in to the table, if the flag is set to true then a prefix is added
> to the key. e.g. <region server#>- or <region server #|| where the region
> server # is an integer between 1 and the number of region servers defined.
> On read (scan) for each region server defined, a separate scan is created
> adding the prefix. Since each scan will be in sort order, its possible to
> strip the prefix and return the lowest value key from each of the subsets.
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