No, it's a direct read using a block index which is in memory. J-D
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Paul Mackles <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the answer to this is "no", but I am hoping someone with more > experience can confirm this… we are on hbase 0.90.4 (from cdh3u2). Some of > our storefiles have grown into the 3-4GB range (we have 100GB max region > size). Ignoring compactions, do large storefiles like this have a negative > impact on random reads? We only recently started doing a large number of > random gets so I have no history to go on in terms of correlating storefile > size with lackluster performance for random reads. > > Thanks, > Paul
