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] Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-13052: ---------------------------------------- I know of http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/ that discusses splitting and merging and the different policy options. > Explain each region split policy > -------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-13052 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13052 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Components: documentation > Reporter: Misty Stanley-Jones > Assignee: Misty Stanley-Jones > Attachments: HBASE-13052.patch > > > {quote} > there are five region split policies today so that let's add a section which > explains: > 1. How each policies work. We can start from current java doc: > http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/KeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.html > http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.html > http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/DisabledRegionSplitPolicy.html > http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy.html > http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy.html > 2. How users can choose a good policy per their scenario basis > 3. Pros and cons over each policies > {quote} > from [~daisuke.kobayashi] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)
