you can pre-splite table using you hex characters string for start key, end
key and using number of regions to spilit
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HTableDescriptor tableDes = new HTableDescriptor(tableName);
tableDes.setValue(HTableDescriptor.SPLIT_POLICY,
KeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.class.getName());
byte[][] splits =
getHexSplits(SPLIT_START_KEY,SPLIT_END_KEY,NUM_OF_REGION_SPLIT);
admin.createTable(tableDes, splits);
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private byte[][] getHexSplits(String startKey, String endKey, int
numRegions) {
byte[][] splits = new byte[numRegions - 1][];
BigInteger lowestKey = new BigInteger(startKey, 8); //considering
for first 8bytes to spilte
BigInteger highestKey = new BigInteger(endKey, 8);
BigInteger range = highestKey.subtract(lowestKey);
BigInteger regionIncrement =
range.divide(BigInteger.valueOf(numRegions));
lowestKey = lowestKey.add(regionIncrement);
for (int i = 0; i < numRegions - 1; i++) {
BigInteger key =
lowestKey.add(regionIncrement.multiply(BigInteger.valueOf(i)));
byte[] b = String.format("%016x", key).getBytes();
splits[i] = b;
}
return splits;
}
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On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Li Li <[email protected]> wrote:
> thanks. I will try this.
> by the way, byte range is -128 - 127
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Michael Segel
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Simple answer… you really can’t.
> > The best thing you can do is to pre split the table in to 4 regions
> based on splitting the first byte in to 4 equal ranges.
> (0-63,64-127,128-191,191-255)
> >
> > And hope that you’ll have an even split.
> >
> > In theory, over time you will.
> >
> >
> > On May 8, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Li Li <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> say I have 4 region server. How to pre split a table using MD5 as row
> key?
> >>
> >
>
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Regards,
...sudhakara
