Sorry for the basic question, but by key segment do you mean row key, column family column qualifier? So each should be less than a kilobyte or total? I think either way we are below that but I just want to make sure I understand the terminology. Again thanks for the reply.
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > On the order of a kilobyte, or less, per key segment is probably > ideal. Beyond that, you may want to experiment to see what works for > you. > > Up to the order of a megabyte may work fine in newer versions (at > least 1.4), but I'd start having concerns about your schema decisions > after that, even if your performance was fine... since ultimately, > Accumulo tables are a sorted index, and I'd wonder what kind of index > needs such large keys. > > I suspect a few hundred bytes is probably plenty for most applications. > > -- > Christopher L Tubbs II > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Jamie Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've read that in HBase there is a recommended limit on key lengths > because > > they're passed around quite a bit. Is the same true of accumulo? Are > there > > any recommendations in this regard? >
