Not to my knowledge. Partitions are dynamically determined. As your table grows, regions become too large and are split roughly in half. This prevents unbalanced regions. Any predetermined partitioning will ultimately fail because you don't know your data as well as you think you do.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Weishung Chung [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: customize partitioning of regionserver Does HBase have the capability to partition dataset by range like the MySQL partitioning eg. partition the datetime, row key by month? Thank you.
