Hi all, I'm using HBase 0.94.12 and in some tables I'm managing splitting and compactions manually.
I was wondering if hbase.hregion.max.filesize relates to compressed or uncompressed file size. If I'm using compression, and the file size < hbase.hregion.max.filesize but uncompressed it's bigger, than when executing major compaction on the region, it splits. Should it be like that ? more important, the recommendation of regions of 1GB is for compressed or uncompressed StoreFile size? Since I'm using bulk load, I get about 3 StoreFiles loaded into each CF of every new region, I executed region compaction to unite them as 1 file (and then got the unwanted splits) - If I'm never updating this data, do I gain something from uniting the files ? Could I manage ~500MB of compressed (GZ - decompresses to about 7.5GB) with 10GB RAM RegionServers ? Thanks, Amit.
