HBase can run major compaction (even if table has not been updated) to purge expired data (TTL).
Best regards, Vladimir Rodionov Principal Platform Engineer Carrier IQ, www.carrieriq.com e-mail: [email protected] ________________________________________ From: Premal Shah [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 9:02 PM To: user Subject: Tables gets Major Compacted even if they haven't changed Hi, We have a bunch on tables in our HBase cluster. We have a script which makes sure all of them get Major Compacted once every 2 days. There are 2 things I'm observing 1) Table X has not updated in a month. We have not inserted, updated or deleted data. However, it still major compacts every 2 days. All the regions in this table have only 1 store file. 2) Table Y has a few regions where the rowkey is essentially a timestamp. So, we only write to 1 region at a time. Over time, the region splits, and then we write the one of the split regions. Now, whenever we major compact the table, all regions get major compacted. Only 1 region has more than 1 store file, every other region has exactly once. Is there a way to avoid compaction of regions that have not changed? We are using HBase 0.94.11 -- Regards, Premal Shah. Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this message, including any attachments hereto, may be confidential and is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom this message is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent or designee of the intended recipient, please note that any review, use, disclosure or distribution of this message or its attachments, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or [email protected] and delete or destroy any copy of this message and its attachments.
