Re: hbase block and columnfamily of a row

2016-05-15 Thread Stack
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Shushant Arora wrote: > can a hbase table with single column family hve its row spawned on > multiple blocks in a same HFile ? > > Yes. A row could have many entries in it.. too many for a single block. > Suppose there is only one hfile in that case is it pos

hbase block and columnfamily of a row

2016-05-14 Thread Shushant Arora
can a hbase table with single column family hve its row spawned on multiple blocks in a same HFile ? Suppose there is only one hfile in that case is it possile a column family having 5-6 columns is spawned on multiple blocks ? or its always block is closed at max( 64k default or when all columns