Re: [hbase] table HRegionServer affinity

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Purtell
lassing/adapting region servers and scanner API and Hbase shell commands for our ends. Thanks again, Andrew Purtell Advanced Threats Research Trend Micro, Inc, Pasadena, CA USA (personal mail) Be a better

RE: [hbase] table HRegionServer affinity

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Purtell
Thank you all for your considered responses. I would like to make a few comments and clarifications (inline, below). Jim Kellerman wrote: > > Andrew Purtell wrote: > > First: How invasive to the HBase master/region model is > > the concept of specifying constraints on data

Re: [hbase] table HRegionServer affinity

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Purtell
> > changes, ideally there would be a HBase shell command > > to support this. Yes. The bit about fixing key ranges was a nod to minor application layer transparency (no need to code up region aware logic to select separate tables, etc.) since I was laying out a wish list. Andrew

Re: [hbase] table HRegionServer affinity

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Purtell
> stack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Purtell wrote: [...] > > 1) The ability to fix a given key range to a region. > > This would both assign a range to a given region, and > > also disable splitting over that range. Aside from API > > changes, ideally

[hbase] table HRegionServer affinity

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Purtell
answers to two questions. First: How invasive to the HBase master/region model is the concept of specifying constraints on data mobility? Second: How difficult would the modifications may be to accomplish? I believe these questions to be related. :-) Thanks, Andrew Purtell Advanced Threats Research