[jira] [Updated] (HBASE-5386) [usability] Soft limit for eager region splitting of young tables

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stack updated HBASE-5386:
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      Component/s: Usability
    Fix Version/s:     (was: 0.95.0)

Moving unassigned new feature out of 0.95
                
> [usability] Soft limit for eager region splitting of young tables
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>                 Key: HBASE-5386
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5386
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Usability
>            Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans
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> Coming out of HBASE-2375, we need a new functionality much like hypertable's where we would have a lower split size for new tables and it would grow up to a certain hard limit. This helps usability in different ways:
>  - With that we can set the default split size much higher and users will still have good data distribution
>  - No more messing with force splits
>  - Not mandatory to pre-split your table in order to get good out of the box performance
> The way Doug Judd described how it works for them, they start with a low value and then double it every time it splits. For example if we started with a soft size of 32MB and a hard size of 2GB, it wouldn't be until you have 64 regions that you hit the ceiling.
> On the implementation side, we could add a new qualifier in .META. that has that soft limit. When that field doesn't exist, this feature doesn't kick in. It would be written by the region servers after a split and by the master when the table is created with 1 region.

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