See http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#d2566e7164
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Linlin Du <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Our usage of hbase is pretty dummy and in many cases, time stamp is used > as the prefix > of the keys. And it is too late to get that fixed now. > As more data comes in, more new regions will be sprawn from the existing > regions. And after > the retention period expires, many regions are literally empty. It is > desirable to have these > empty region deleted. So my question is how to find out when a region was > last modified/read. > And is there any easy way to merge those regions when they are empty? > > Thanks. > > Linlin > > > >
