Hi, HBase cannot deduce the row key structure, thus cannot pre split the table unless it knows the basic format for the row keys.
<shameless_self_plug> you can look at the blog post about splits here: http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/</shameless_self_plug> Enis On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the replies. I actually do not have the ability to guarantee > how keys will be structured, I am working on our own corporate > implementation which will be used by various teams per their needs. I > think your answers gave me what I needed to know, I will have to > require the user to specify start and end keys if they want to evenly > pre-split their table on creation. > > Thanks, > Cole > >
