Also adding to what Ted mentioned, the following book has more details: http://books.google.com/books?id=i5IFvlnfqi8C&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=hbase+region+name+start+code&source=bl&ots=kNxk4jhoFx&sig=gZIzPHzV_XVfsPd8_u6u9uRLjWs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qjH1UsP0DaPp2QW8koGIAQ&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=hbase%20region%20name%20start%20code&f=false
Regards, Shahab On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > 1389963819387 is regionIdTimeStamp > > The rest is encodedName of the region. > > See HRegionInfo#encodeRegionName() > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Yu, Libo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > On HMaster web console, if I click a table name, I will see all the > > regions for this table. > > For the "name" column, each item is a region, like the following: > > TABLE_NAME,START_KEY,1389963819387.d7c439371542d7219efb61df72671290. > > > > The first field is table name and the second is the start key. My > question > > is what is the third > > field? In this case, I want to know what > > 1389963819387.d7c439371542d7219efb61df72671290 > > is. I cannot get an answer from any Hbase documentation. Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > > > Libo > > > > >
