May I ask why HBase choose to partition data by range?

["Nai Yan. " <zh...@gmail.com>]

Hello, 
     May I ask why HBase chooses to partition data by range? Why not by Hash or list? I belive in the design phase of HBase, this should be discussed. 

     Thanks in adavance. 



Nai Yan.

Re: May I ask why HBase choose to partition data by range?

[lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org>]

It does so by splitting the row keys into ranges. The application controls the row keys, hence it can choose as row key whatever it like. If you prefix the row key with the prefix of the hash of the key you get hash partitioning. 



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 From: Nai Yan. <zh...@gmail.com>
To: dev <de...@hbase.apache.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 9:46 PM
Subject: May I ask why HBase choose to partition data by range?
 

Hello, 
     May I ask why HBase chooses to partition data by range? Why not by Hash or list? I belive in the design phase of HBase, this should be discussed. 

     Thanks in adavance. 



Nai Yan.

Re: May I ask why HBase choose to partition data by range?

[Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com>]

Please see Google's bigtable paper, page 2, section 'Rows'

Cheers


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Nai Yan. <zh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>      May I ask why HBase chooses to partition data by range? Why not by
> Hash or list? I belive in the design phase of HBase, this should be
> discussed.
>
>      Thanks in adavance.
>
>
>
> Nai Yan.
>

Re: May I ask why HBase choose to partition data by range?

[Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com>]

Please see Google's bigtable paper, page 2, section 'Rows'

Cheers


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Nai Yan. <zh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>      May I ask why HBase chooses to partition data by range? Why not by
> Hash or list? I belive in the design phase of HBase, this should be
> discussed.
>
>      Thanks in adavance.
>
>
>
> Nai Yan.
>