Take a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3149
Cheers On Jun 10, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Lucas Stanley <[email protected]> wrote: > In the current version of HBase (094.8) do all the column families on a > region server still get flushed together? > > I know a couple of years ago, it was recommended that if you have 10 column > families and if you populate just one of them so it's memstore gets full > with 64 MB of data, this will cause all 10 column families to be flushed, > even if the other 9 memstores only had 5 MB of data each. > > Because of this, it was recommended to keep the # of column families low. > > Does HBase currently still do all the memstore flushes together... or can > it now individually flush individual memstores?
