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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-16894:
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bq. We have been discussing an interesting edge case when a table has some skew
due the key design and it would be helpful to write in a single reducer HFiles
for multiple regions.
For HBase TableOutputFormat where the output record writer directly writes to
HBase, it might be fine to combine multiple regions in a single reducer since
the client will do the correct thing of finding relevant locations to write to.
However, for bulk load and HFileOutputFormat, we should not have more than 1
region per reduce task. It is "by design" that we should have at least one
reducer per region since the bulk load process cannot load partial ranges from
an hfile. Created HFile must fit into the region boundaries otherwise the BL
client will manually split and rewrite the file, thus causing serial and
unnecessary work.
> Create more than 1 split per region, generalize HBASE-12590
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> Key: HBASE-16894
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16894
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: Yi Liang
> Labels: beginner, beginners
>
> A common request from users is to be able to better control how many map
> tasks are created per region. Right now, it is always 1 region = 1 input
> split = 1 map task. Same goes for Spark since it uses the TIF. With region
> sizes as large as 50 GBs, it is desirable to be able to create more than 1
> split per region.
> HBASE-12590 adds a config property for MR jobs to be able to handle skew in
> region sizes. The algorithm is roughly:
> {code}
> If (region size >= average size*ratio) : cut the region into two MR input
> splits
> If (average size <= region size < average size*ratio) : one region as one MR
> input split
> If (sum of several continuous regions size < average size * ratio): combine
> these regions into one MR input split.
> {code}
> Although we can set data skew ratio to be 0.5 or something to abuse
> HBASE-12590 into creating more than 1 split task per region, it is not ideal.
> But there is no way to create more with the patch as it is. For example we
> cannot create more than 2 tasks per region.
> If we want to fix this properly, we should extend the approach in
> HBASE-12590, and make it so that the client can specify the desired num of
> mappers, or desired split size, and the TIF generates the splits based on the
> current region sizes very similar to the algorithm in HBASE-12590, but a more
> generic way. This also would eliminate the hand tuning of data skew ratio.
> We also can think about the guidepost approach that Phoenix has in the stats
> table which is used for exactly this purpose. Right now, the region can be
> split into powers of two assuming uniform distribution within the region.
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