Mike, I just saw a system with 2500 Regions per RS(crazy I know, we are fixing that). I did not think there was a hard coded limit...
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Amandeep Khurana <[email protected]> wrote: > I have come across clusters with 100s of tables but that typically is > due to a sub optimal table design. > > The question here is - why do you need to distribute your data over > lots of tables? What's your access pattern and what kind of data are > you putting in? Or is this just a theoretical question? > > On Jul 13, 2012, at 12:05 AM, Adrien Mogenet <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I read some good practices about number of columns / column families, but > > nothing about the number of tables. > > What if I need to spread my data among hundred or thousand (big) tables ? > > What should I care about ? I guess I should keep a tight number of > > storeFiles per RegionServer ? > > > > -- > > Adrien Mogenet > > http://www.mogenet.me > -- Kevin O'Dell Customer Operations Engineer, Cloudera
