Searching for 'lsm tree hbase' would give you several articles. I am in China - the search results are mostly in Chinese.
You should be able to read this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13762992/log-structured-merge-tree-in-hbase Cheers On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:49 PM, AnilKumar B <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We are trying to understand how and where exactly LSM tress are used in > HBase. Currently as per our understanding, while flushing memstore to Store > files and while HFile compaction it is used. And sits on top of HFiles at > memstore level. > > Is this understanding correct. Can you please give more insight on this? > How exactly is the merging done? > > Thanks & Regards, > B Anil Kumar. >
