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Todd Lipcon commented on HBASE-14864:
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Interesting proposal. Can you give an example or two of the key transformation
you're suggesting? Typically "bucket" means some kind of hash calculation, but
from the description it sounds more like you're applying some "round to nearest
5 minute interval"?
> Add support for bucketing of keys into client library
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>
> Key: HBASE-14864
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14864
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Client
> Reporter: Lars George
>
> This has been discussed and taught so many times, I believe it is time to
> support it properly. The idea is to be able to assign an optional _bucketing_
> strategy to a table, which translates the user given row keys into a bucketed
> version. This is done by either simple count, or by parts of the key.
> Possibly some simple functionality should help _compute_ bucket keys.
> For example, given a key {{<service>\-<epoch>\-<subgroup>-...}} you could
> imagine that a rule can be defined that takes the _epoch_ part and chunks it
> into, for example, 5 minute buckets. This allows to store small time series
> together and make reading (especially over many servers) much more efficient.
> The client also supports the proper scan logic to fan a scan over the buckets
> as needed. There may be an executor service (implicitly or explicitly
> provided) that is used to fetch the original data with user visible ordering
> from the distributed buckets.
> Note that this has been attempted a few times to various extends out in the
> field, but then withered away. This is an essential feature that when present
> in the API will make users consider this earlier, instead of when it is too
> late (when hot spotting occurs for example).
> The selected bucketing strategy and settings could be stored in the table
> descriptor key/value pairs. This will allow any client to observe the
> strategy transparently. If not set the behaviour is the same as today, so the
> new feature is not touching any critical path in terms of code, and is fully
> client side. (But could be considered for say UI support as well - if needed).
> The strategies are pluggable using classes, but a few default implementations
> are supplied.
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