On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Varun Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > What happens if my block size is 32K while the cells are 50K. Do Hfile > blocks round up to 50K or are values split across blocks ? Also how does > this play with the block cache ? > Yes. We round up to the size of the actual value; we do not split cells across hbase blocks. Regards block cache, we cache at the block granularity, whatever their size (in your cache, this 50k value will be pulled in and will float in the BC using 50k). St.Ack
