Still doing it old school unless I have to alter a bunch of tables for the same reason, like enabling replication.
J-D On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ian Varley <[email protected]> wrote: > All: > > I'm doing a little research into various ways to apply schema modifications > to an HBase cluster. Anybody care to share with the list what you currently > do? E.g. > > - Connect via the HBase shell and manually issue commands ("create", > "disable", "alter", etc.) > - Write one-off scripts that do the above > - Write tools that read from a static schema definition and then apply > changes to a cluster (e.g. using HBaseAdmin) > > etc. My supposition is that some additional tooling in this area, to > consolidate stuff everybody already does on their own, might be helpful. In > light of recent discussions on the dev list about various ways to alter the > schema on a running cluster, it seems like this area is still a bit of a > "wild west" in the HBase community, both in how HBase works and in what > people do in practice. > > What do you do today for schema changes, and what would you like to do in an > ideal world? > > Thanks, > Ian
