To expand on what Lars said, there is an example of how this is layed out on disk...
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#trouble.namenode.disk ... regions distribute the table, so two different tables will be distributed by separate sets of regions. On 12/1/11 3:14 AM, "Lars George" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Sam, > >You need to handle them all separately. The note - I assume - was solely >explaining the fact that the "load" of a region server is defined by the >number of regions it hosts, not the number of tables. If you want to >precreate the regions for one or more than one table is the same work: >create the tables (one by one) with the list of split points. > >Lars > >On Dec 1, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Sam Seigal wrote: > >> HI, >> >> I had a question about the relationship between regions and tables. >> >> Is there a way to pre-create regions for multiple tables ? or each >> table has its own set of regions managed independently ? >> >> I read on one of the threads that there is really no limit on the >> number of tables, but that we need to be careful about is the number >> of regions. Does this mean that the regions can be pre created for >> multiple tables ? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Sam > >
