Hey, The limits are due to code/data limits, eg: how many bits of space we use to indicate lengths and such. This is something like ~ 2gb for the "key" part and the "value" part each. Furthermore the row can only be Short.MAX_LENGTH.
There is specific exceptions for each one of these in trunk/0.89, do you have a specific exception text? -ryan On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Taylor, Ronald C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to increase the max cell size in one of my Hbase tables. Just > got an error msg when trying to insert something about 12 Meg in size that > said > > KeyValue size too large > > I presume that I'm using the default cell max size at present - I cannot find > anything regarding cell size in the conf files, so the default setting must > be being used. > > How do I increase the max size allowed? For example, if I want to allow a > string of up to 20 Meg in size, which conf file do I change, and what is the > precise wording? > > I googled around and found a note on MAX_LENGTH, but it is unclear how to set > it and where. Do I do something like > > MAX_LENGTH=20 > > in the conf//hbase-env.sh file? > > And, if that works, do I need to restart Hbase and then recreate all the > tables in which I want to use the new max cell size? > > Cheers, > Ron > > ___________________________________________ > Ronald Taylor, Ph.D. > Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Group > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory > 902 Battelle Boulevard > P.O. Box 999, Mail Stop J4-33 > Richland, WA 99352 USA > Office: 509-372-6568 > Email: [email protected] > > >
