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Posted to commits@hbase.apache.org by st...@apache.org on 2011/03/17 00:31:12 UTC

svn commit: r1082346 - /hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/bulk-loads.xml

Author: stack
Date: Wed Mar 16 23:31:11 2011
New Revision: 1082346

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1082346&view=rev
Log:
Add sentence on benefits of bulk load

Modified:
    hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/bulk-loads.xml

Modified: hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/bulk-loads.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/bulk-loads.xml?rev=1082346&r1=1082345&r2=1082346&view=diff
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--- hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/bulk-loads.xml (original)
+++ hbase/trunk/src/site/xdoc/bulk-loads.xml Wed Mar 16 23:31:11 2011
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
         This document describes HBase's bulk load functionality. The bulk load
         feature uses a MapReduce job to output table data in HBase's internal
         data format, and then directly loads the data files into a running
-        cluster.
+        cluster.  Using bulk load will use less CPU and network than going
+        via the HBase API.
       </p>
     </section>
     <section name="Bulk Load Architecture">