You can start by reading the book entry on this: http://hbase.apache.org/book/important_configurations.html#disable.splitting
But what you might wanna do instead is bulk loading: http://hbase.apache.org/bulk-loads.html J-D On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:02 AM, hbaseuser hbaseuser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to dump BigData in my new hbase table and I want to pre-split the > regions.I see some discussion on this topic but I can't find the commands to > do that during table creation. I see a JIRA ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-42) for this but I don't see any > help related to this on the shell. I'm looking for a command like this > > create 't1','f1','f2' {SPLIT_SIZE=10} > > > Also, what is the best practice for splitting data? Also there is a command > for split <region name> or <table name>. > > Thanks for your help. > > Thanks, > Mark >
