On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Srikanth P. Shreenivas <[email protected]> wrote: > We are trying to design a HBase table, and we seem to be tending towards > packing 3 fields into our row key, as we need to be able to do random access > using these 3 fields. > The row key is turning out to be around 93 characters in size. >
Thats not too bad. You can end up using lots of ram if you then have very small cells. This section in the book is pretty good on the issues: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#keysize St.Ack
