On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 20:40, Eric Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm finally also +1 for UUID. > There's always a price to pay for any option, but the challenges we will > have to solve in the message (especially for search) will be a few level > higher. > > So for now, I would simply to worry on scanning the whole mailbox table. > There will be also the possibility to add secondary indexes (just put it > aside for now, indexes with HBase is not ready for primet ime). > So there is room for improvement, just go on with UUID.
+1, this also helps to distribute rows within the HBase cluster more evenly. You could also think about storing references to all mailboxes for a particular user in one row of a mapper table. HBase rows may contain millions of columns. Bernd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
