Hi All,

Today I stumble upon this error:

Error: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: 
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: KeyValue size too large
        at 
com.winbond.hadoop.fdc.mapreduce.xml.XmlToHBaseMapper.map(XmlToHBaseMapper.java:204)
        at 
com.winbond.hadoop.fdc.mapreduce.xml.XmlToHBaseMapper.map(XmlToHBaseMapper.java:1)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:145)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:763)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:339)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:162)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1491)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:157)

After looking into the source code, it appears this is a constraint impose by 
hbase.client.keyvalue.maxsize = 10485760.

>From the parameter description:
Specifies the combined maximum allowed size of a KeyValue instance. This is to 
set an upper boundary for a single entry saved in a storage file. Since they 
cannot be split it helps avoiding that a region cannot be split any further 
because the data is too large. It seems wise to set this to a fraction of the 
maximum region size. Setting it to zero or less disables the check.

If I set the table's region size to be maximum 20GB before splitting, could I 
set the hbase.client.keyvalue.maxsize to a larger value? Such as: 200 MB

One more thing, when I looked into HTable.java source code, it appears that the 
key value size is checked before compression, is this true?
I think it should be more reasonable to check the size after compression, no?

Best regards,
Henry Hung

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