How small is small and how large is large?
Recommended region size is usually between 5-10GB. Too small regions results in 
more frequent flushes/compactions
and have additional overhead in RS RAM.

>>I am thinking about extending TableInputFormat to override the
>>1-map-per-region default policy as an alternative.

This looks better approach.

Best regards,
Vladimir Rodionov
Principal Platform Engineer
Carrier IQ, www.carrieriq.com
e-mail: [email protected]

________________________________________
From: David Koch [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 6:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Effect of region size on compaction performance

Hello,

We run M/Rs over several HBase tables at the same time and chose to reduce
region sizes in order to make map tasks faster and improve map-slot
turnaround between the concurrent jobs. However, I am worried many regions
will cause longer overall compactions of the HBase data. Is this the case?

I am thinking about extending TableInputFormat to override the
1-map-per-region default policy as an alternative.

Regards,

/David

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