I was wondering how I can go about evenly splitting an entire table in HBase during table creation[1]. I tried providing the empty byte arrays HConstants.EMPTY_START_ROW and HConstants.EMPTY_END_ROW as parameters to the method I linked below, and got an error: "Start key must be smaller than end key". Is there a way to go about splitting the entire table without having specific start and end keys? Thanks in advance.
[1] http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.html #createTable(org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor, byte[], byte[], int)
