[jira] [Created] (HBASE-15339) Add archive tiers for date based tiered compactions

["Duo Zhang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Duo Zhang created HBASE-15339:
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             Summary: Add archive tiers for date based tiered compactions
                 Key: HBASE-15339
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15339
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Compaction
            Reporter: Duo Zhang


For our MiCloud service, the old data is rarely touched but we still need to keep it, so we want to put the data on inexpensive device and reduce redundancy using EC to cut down the cost.

With date based tiered compaction introduced in HBASE-15181, new data and old data can be placed in different tier. But the tier boundary moves as time lapse so it is still possible that we do compaction on old tier which breaks our block moving and EC work.

So here we want to introduce an "archive tier" to better fit our scenario. Add an configuration called "archive unit", for example, year. That means, if we find that the tier boundary is already in the previous year, then we reset the boundary to the start of year and end of year, and if we want to do compaction in this tier, just compact all files into one file. The file will never be changed unless we force a major compaction so it is safe to apply EC and other cost reducing approach on the file. And we make more tiers before this tier year by year. 



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