I'm not sure I am clear, are you saying 64 bit chunks of a MD5 keys are not uniformly distributed? Or that a base-64 encoding is not evenly distributed?
thanks, -chris On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > There can be some odd effects with this because the keys are not uniformly > distributed. Beware if you are using pre-split tables because the region > traffic can be pretty unbalanced if you do a naive split. > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Chris Tarnas <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using base-64 encoding when I use my hashes as rowkeys - makes them > printable while still being fairly dense, IIRC a 64bit key should be only 11 > characters. >
