I think you will need to update your hash function and redistribute data. As far as I know this has been on of the drawbacks of this approach (and the SemaText library)
Regards, Shahab On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Joarder KAMAL <[email protected]> wrote: > May be a simple question to answer for the experienced HBase users and > developers: > > If I use hash partitioning to evenly distribute write workloads into my > region servers and later add a new region server to scale or split an > existing region, then do I need to change my hash function and re-shuffle > all the existing data in between all the region servers (old and new)? Or, > is there any better solution for this? Any guidance would be very much > helpful. > > Thanks in advance. > > > Regards, > Joarder Kamal >
