This is kind of true. There is only one regionserver to handle the reads, but there are multiple copies of the data to handle fail-over.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <[email protected]> wrote: > My question has to do with one of the good comments from Edward Capriolo, who > pointed out that some of the Configurations he described in his Cassandra as > Memcached talk ( > http://www.edwardcapriolo.com/roller/edwardcapriolo/resource/memcache.odp ) > are > not possible with HBase because in HBase there is only 1 copy of any given > Region and it lives on a single RegionServer (I'm assuming this is correct?), > thus making it impossible to spread reads of data from one Region over > multiple > RegionServers:
