Re: Maximum size of HBase row

2016-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Spaggiari
Hi Sreeram, If only 0.01% of the rows are reaching 1GB, then HBase should be able to handle that... However, there is few things you might want to keep in mind. 1) What is the distribution of those 0.01%? Any risk for most of them to end up on the same region? 2) How is data ingested into the

Re: Maximum size of HBase row

2016-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Spaggiari
Hi Sreeram., HBase will not split a region withing a row. So if a row gets WAY to many columns, its size can grow higher than the configured max region size. Which, of course, is not recommended because your region will serve a single row. If you think your row will become bigger than 1% or your