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 <li><a href="#hbase.shell.noninteractive">16. HBase Shell in OS Scripts</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_read_hbase_shell_commands_from_a_command_file">17. Read HBase Shell Commands from a Command File</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_passing_vm_options_to_the_shell">18. Passing VM Options to the Shell</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_shell_tricks">19. Shell Tricks</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_overriding_configuration_starting_the_hbase_shell">19. Overriding configuration starting the HBase Shell</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_shell_tricks">20. Shell Tricks</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#datamodel">Data Model</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#conceptual.view">20. Conceptual View</a></li>
-<li><a href="#physical.view">21. Physical View</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_namespace">22. Namespace</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_table">23. Table</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_row">24. Row</a></li>
-<li><a href="#columnfamily">25. Column Family</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_cells">26. Cells</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_data_model_operations">27. Data Model Operations</a></li>
-<li><a href="#versions">28. Versions</a></li>
-<li><a href="#dm.sort">29. Sort Order</a></li>
-<li><a href="#dm.column.metadata">30. Column Metadata</a></li>
-<li><a href="#joins">31. Joins</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_acid">32. ACID</a></li>
+<li><a href="#conceptual.view">21. Conceptual View</a></li>
+<li><a href="#physical.view">22. Physical View</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_namespace">23. Namespace</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_table">24. Table</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_row">25. Row</a></li>
+<li><a href="#columnfamily">26. Column Family</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_cells">27. Cells</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_data_model_operations">28. Data Model Operations</a></li>
+<li><a href="#versions">29. Versions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#dm.sort">30. Sort Order</a></li>
+<li><a href="#dm.column.metadata">31. Column Metadata</a></li>
+<li><a href="#joins">32. Joins</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_acid">33. ACID</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#schema">HBase and Schema Design</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#schema.creation">33. Schema Creation</a></li>
-<li><a href="#table_schema_rules_of_thumb">34. Table Schema Rules Of Thumb</a></li>
+<li><a href="#schema.creation">34. Schema Creation</a></li>
+<li><a href="#table_schema_rules_of_thumb">35. Table Schema Rules Of Thumb</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#regionserver_sizing_rules_of_thumb">RegionServer Sizing Rules of Thumb</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#number.of.cfs">35. On the number of column families</a></li>
-<li><a href="#rowkey.design">36. Rowkey Design</a></li>
-<li><a href="#schema.versions">37. Number of Versions</a></li>
-<li><a href="#supported.datatypes">38. Supported Datatypes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#schema.joins">39. Joins</a></li>
-<li><a href="#ttl">40. Time To Live (TTL)</a></li>
-<li><a href="#cf.keep.deleted">41. Keeping Deleted Cells</a></li>
-<li><a href="#secondary.indexes">42. Secondary Indexes and Alternate Query Paths</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_constraints">43. Constraints</a></li>
-<li><a href="#schema.casestudies">44. Schema Design Case Studies</a></li>
-<li><a href="#schema.ops">45. Operational and Performance Configuration Options</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_special_cases">46. Special Cases</a></li>
+<li><a href="#number.of.cfs">36. On the number of column families</a></li>
+<li><a href="#rowkey.design">37. Rowkey Design</a></li>
+<li><a href="#schema.versions">38. Number of Versions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#supported.datatypes">39. Supported Datatypes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#schema.joins">40. Joins</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ttl">41. Time To Live (TTL)</a></li>
+<li><a href="#cf.keep.deleted">42. Keeping Deleted Cells</a></li>
+<li><a href="#secondary.indexes">43. Secondary Indexes and Alternate Query Paths</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_constraints">44. Constraints</a></li>
+<li><a href="#schema.casestudies">45. Schema Design Case Studies</a></li>
+<li><a href="#schema.ops">46. Operational and Performance Configuration Options</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_special_cases">47. Special Cases</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#mapreduce">HBase and MapReduce</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#hbase.mapreduce.classpath">47. HBase, MapReduce, and the CLASSPATH</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_mapreduce_scan_caching">48. MapReduce Scan Caching</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_bundled_hbase_mapreduce_jobs">49. Bundled HBase MapReduce Jobs</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_hbase_as_a_mapreduce_job_data_source_and_data_sink">50. HBase as a MapReduce Job Data Source and Data Sink</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_writing_hfiles_directly_during_bulk_import">51. Writing HFiles Directly During Bulk Import</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_rowcounter_example">52. RowCounter Example</a></li>
-<li><a href="#splitter">53. Map-Task Splitting</a></li>
-<li><a href="#mapreduce.example">54. HBase MapReduce Examples</a></li>
-<li><a href="#mapreduce.htable.access">55. Accessing Other HBase Tables in a MapReduce Job</a></li>
-<li><a href="#mapreduce.specex">56. Speculative Execution</a></li>
-<li><a href="#cascading">57. Cascading</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase.mapreduce.classpath">48. HBase, MapReduce, and the CLASSPATH</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_mapreduce_scan_caching">49. MapReduce Scan Caching</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_bundled_hbase_mapreduce_jobs">50. Bundled HBase MapReduce Jobs</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_hbase_as_a_mapreduce_job_data_source_and_data_sink">51. HBase as a MapReduce Job Data Source and Data Sink</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_writing_hfiles_directly_during_bulk_import">52. Writing HFiles Directly During Bulk Import</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_rowcounter_example">53. RowCounter Example</a></li>
+<li><a href="#splitter">54. Map-Task Splitting</a></li>
+<li><a href="#mapreduce.example">55. HBase MapReduce Examples</a></li>
+<li><a href="#mapreduce.htable.access">56. Accessing Other HBase Tables in a MapReduce Job</a></li>
+<li><a href="#mapreduce.specex">57. Speculative Execution</a></li>
+<li><a href="#cascading">58. Cascading</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#security">Securing Apache HBase</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_using_secure_http_https_for_the_web_ui">58. Using Secure HTTP (HTTPS) for the Web UI</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase.secure.spnego.ui">59. Using SPNEGO for Kerberos authentication with Web UIs</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase.secure.configuration">60. Secure Client Access to Apache HBase</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase.secure.simpleconfiguration">61. Simple User Access to Apache HBase</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_securing_access_to_hdfs_and_zookeeper">62. Securing Access to HDFS and ZooKeeper</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_securing_access_to_your_data">63. Securing Access To Your Data</a></li>
-<li><a href="#security.example.config">64. Security Configuration Example</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_using_secure_http_https_for_the_web_ui">59. Using Secure HTTP (HTTPS) for the Web UI</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase.secure.spnego.ui">60. Using SPNEGO for Kerberos authentication with Web UIs</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase.secure.configuration">61. Secure Client Access to Apache HBase</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase.secure.simpleconfiguration">62. Simple User Access to Apache HBase</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_securing_access_to_hdfs_and_zookeeper">63. Securing Access to HDFS and ZooKeeper</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_securing_access_to_your_data">64. Securing Access To Your Data</a></li>
+<li><a href="#security.example.config">65. Security Configuration Example</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#_architecture">Architecture</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#arch.overview">65. Overview</a></li>
-<li><a href="#arch.catalog">66. Catalog Tables</a></li>
-<li><a href="#architecture.client">67. Client</a></li>
-<li><a href="#client.filter">68. Client Request Filters</a></li>
-<li><a href="#architecture.master">69. Master</a></li>
-<li><a href="#regionserver.arch">70. RegionServer</a></li>
-<li><a href="#regions.arch">71. Regions</a></li>
-<li><a href="#arch.bulk.load">72. Bulk Loading</a></li>
-<li><a href="#arch.hdfs">73. HDFS</a></li>
-<li><a href="#arch.timelineconsistent.reads">74. Timeline-consistent High Available Reads</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase_mob">75. Storing Medium-sized Objects (MOB)</a></li>
+<li><a href="#arch.overview">66. Overview</a></li>
+<li><a href="#arch.catalog">67. Catalog Tables</a></li>
+<li><a href="#architecture.client">68. Client</a></li>
+<li><a href="#client.filter">69. Client Request Filters</a></li>
+<li><a href="#architecture.master">70. Master</a></li>
+<li><a href="#regionserver.arch">71. RegionServer</a></li>
+<li><a href="#regions.arch">72. Regions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#arch.bulk.load">73. Bulk Loading</a></li>
+<li><a href="#arch.hdfs">74. HDFS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#arch.timelineconsistent.reads">75. Timeline-consistent High Available Reads</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase_mob">76. Storing Medium-sized Objects (MOB)</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#inmemory_compaction">In-memory Compaction</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#imc.overview">76. Overview</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_enabling">77. Enabling</a></li>
+<li><a href="#imc.overview">77. Overview</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_enabling">78. Enabling</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#backuprestore">Backup and Restore</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#br.overview">78. Overview</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.terminology">79. Terminology</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.planning">80. Planning</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.initial.setup">81. First-time configuration steps</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_backup_and_restore_commands">82. Backup and Restore commands</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.administration">83. Administration of Backup Images</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.backup.configuration">84. Configuration keys</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.best.practices">85. Best Practices</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.s3.backup.scenario">86. Scenario: Safeguarding Application Datasets on Amazon S3</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.data.security">87. Security of Backup Data</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.technical.details">88. Technical Details of Incremental Backup and Restore</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.filesystem.growth.warning">89. A Warning on File System Growth</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.backup.capacity.planning">90. Capacity Planning</a></li>
-<li><a href="#br.limitations">91. Limitations of the Backup and Restore Utility</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.overview">79. Overview</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.terminology">80. Terminology</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.planning">81. Planning</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.initial.setup">82. First-time configuration steps</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_backup_and_restore_commands">83. Backup and Restore commands</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.administration">84. Administration of Backup Images</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.backup.configuration">85. Configuration keys</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.best.practices">86. Best Practices</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.s3.backup.scenario">87. Scenario: Safeguarding Application Datasets on Amazon S3</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.data.security">88. Security of Backup Data</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.technical.details">89. Technical Details of Incremental Backup and Restore</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.filesystem.growth.warning">90. A Warning on File System Growth</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.backup.capacity.planning">91. Capacity Planning</a></li>
+<li><a href="#br.limitations">92. Limitations of the Backup and Restore Utility</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#syncreplication">Synchronous Replication</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_background">92. Background</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_design">93. Design</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_operation_and_maintenance">94. Operation and maintenance</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_background">93. Background</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_design">94. Design</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_operation_and_maintenance">95. Operation and maintenance</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#hbase_apis">Apache HBase APIs</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_examples">95. Examples</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_examples">96. Examples</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#external_apis">Apache HBase External APIs</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_rest">96. REST</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_thrift">97. Thrift</a></li>
-<li><a href="#c">98. C/C++ Apache HBase Client</a></li>
-<li><a href="#jdo">99. Using Java Data Objects (JDO) with HBase</a></li>
-<li><a href="#scala">100. Scala</a></li>
-<li><a href="#jython">101. Jython</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_rest">97. REST</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_thrift">98. Thrift</a></li>
+<li><a href="#c">99. C/C++ Apache HBase Client</a></li>
+<li><a href="#jdo">100. Using Java Data Objects (JDO) with HBase</a></li>
+<li><a href="#scala">101. Scala</a></li>
+<li><a href="#jython">102. Jython</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#thrift">Thrift API and Filter Language</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#thrift.filter_language">102. Filter Language</a></li>
+<li><a href="#thrift.filter_language">103. Filter Language</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#spark">HBase and Spark</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_basic_spark">103. Basic Spark</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_spark_streaming">104. Spark Streaming</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_bulk_load">105. Bulk Load</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_sparksql_dataframes">106. SparkSQL/DataFrames</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_basic_spark">104. Basic Spark</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_spark_streaming">105. Spark Streaming</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_bulk_load">106. Bulk Load</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_sparksql_dataframes">107. SparkSQL/DataFrames</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#cp">Apache HBase Coprocessors</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_coprocessor_overview">107. Coprocessor Overview</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_types_of_coprocessors">108. Types of Coprocessors</a></li>
-<li><a href="#cp_loading">109. Loading Coprocessors</a></li>
-<li><a href="#cp_example">110. Examples</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_guidelines_for_deploying_a_coprocessor">111. Guidelines For Deploying A Coprocessor</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_restricting_coprocessor_usage">112. Restricting Coprocessor Usage</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_coprocessor_overview">108. Coprocessor Overview</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_types_of_coprocessors">109. Types of Coprocessors</a></li>
+<li><a href="#cp_loading">110. Loading Coprocessors</a></li>
+<li><a href="#cp_example">111. Examples</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_guidelines_for_deploying_a_coprocessor">112. Guidelines For Deploying A Coprocessor</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_restricting_coprocessor_usage">113. Restricting Coprocessor Usage</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#performance">Apache HBase Performance Tuning</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#perf.os">113. Operating System</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.network">114. Network</a></li>
-<li><a href="#jvm">115. Java</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.configurations">116. HBase Configurations</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.zookeeper">117. ZooKeeper</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.schema">118. Schema Design</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.general">119. HBase General Patterns</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.writing">120. Writing to HBase</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.reading">121. Reading from HBase</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.deleting">122. Deleting from HBase</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.hdfs">123. HDFS</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.ec2">124. Amazon EC2</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.hbase.mr.cluster">125. Collocating HBase and MapReduce</a></li>
-<li><a href="#perf.casestudy">126. Case Studies</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.os">114. Operating System</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.network">115. Network</a></li>
+<li><a href="#jvm">116. Java</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.configurations">117. HBase Configurations</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.zookeeper">118. ZooKeeper</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.schema">119. Schema Design</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.general">120. HBase General Patterns</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.writing">121. Writing to HBase</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.reading">122. Reading from HBase</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.deleting">123. Deleting from HBase</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.hdfs">124. HDFS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.ec2">125. Amazon EC2</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.hbase.mr.cluster">126. Collocating HBase and MapReduce</a></li>
+<li><a href="#perf.casestudy">127. Case Studies</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#trouble">Troubleshooting and Debugging Apache HBase</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#trouble.general">127. General Guidelines</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.log">128. Logs</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.resources">129. Resources</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.tools">130. Tools</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.client">131. Client</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.mapreduce">132. MapReduce</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.namenode">133. NameNode</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.network">134. Network</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.rs">135. RegionServer</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.master">136. Master</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.zookeeper">137. ZooKeeper</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.ec2">138. Amazon EC2</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.versions">139. HBase and Hadoop version issues</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_hbase_and_hdfs">140. HBase and HDFS</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.tests">141. Running unit or integration tests</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.casestudy">142. Case Studies</a></li>
-<li><a href="#trouble.crypto">143. Cryptographic Features</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_operating_system_specific_issues">144. Operating System Specific Issues</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_jdk_issues">145. JDK Issues</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.general">128. General Guidelines</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.log">129. Logs</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.resources">130. Resources</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.tools">131. Tools</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.client">132. Client</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.mapreduce">133. MapReduce</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.namenode">134. NameNode</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.network">135. Network</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.rs">136. RegionServer</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.master">137. Master</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.zookeeper">138. ZooKeeper</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.ec2">139. Amazon EC2</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.versions">140. HBase and Hadoop version issues</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_hbase_and_hdfs">141. HBase and HDFS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.tests">142. Running unit or integration tests</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.casestudy">143. Case Studies</a></li>
+<li><a href="#trouble.crypto">144. Cryptographic Features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_operating_system_specific_issues">145. Operating System Specific Issues</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_jdk_issues">146. JDK Issues</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#casestudies">Apache HBase Case Studies</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#casestudies.overview">146. Overview</a></li>
-<li><a href="#casestudies.schema">147. Schema Design</a></li>
-<li><a href="#casestudies.perftroub">148. Performance/Troubleshooting</a></li>
+<li><a href="#casestudies.overview">147. Overview</a></li>
+<li><a href="#casestudies.schema">148. Schema Design</a></li>
+<li><a href="#casestudies.perftroub">149. Performance/Troubleshooting</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#ops_mgt">Apache HBase Operational Management</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#tools">149. HBase Tools and Utilities</a></li>
-<li><a href="#ops.regionmgt">150. Region Management</a></li>
-<li><a href="#node.management">151. Node Management</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase_metrics">152. HBase Metrics</a></li>
-<li><a href="#ops.monitoring">153. HBase Monitoring</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_cluster_replication">154. Cluster Replication</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_running_multiple_workloads_on_a_single_cluster">155. Running Multiple Workloads On a Single Cluster</a></li>
-<li><a href="#ops.backup">156. HBase Backup</a></li>
-<li><a href="#ops.snapshots">157. HBase Snapshots</a></li>
-<li><a href="#snapshots_azure">158. Storing Snapshots in Microsoft Azure Blob Storage</a></li>
-<li><a href="#ops.capacity">159. Capacity Planning and Region Sizing</a></li>
-<li><a href="#table.rename">160. Table Rename</a></li>
-<li><a href="#rsgroup">161. RegionServer Grouping</a></li>
-<li><a href="#normalizer">162. Region Normalizer</a></li>
+<li><a href="#tools">150. HBase Tools and Utilities</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ops.regionmgt">151. Region Management</a></li>
+<li><a href="#node.management">152. Node Management</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase_metrics">153. HBase Metrics</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ops.monitoring">154. HBase Monitoring</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_cluster_replication">155. Cluster Replication</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_running_multiple_workloads_on_a_single_cluster">156. Running Multiple Workloads On a Single Cluster</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ops.backup">157. HBase Backup</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ops.snapshots">158. HBase Snapshots</a></li>
+<li><a href="#snapshots_azure">159. Storing Snapshots in Microsoft Azure Blob Storage</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ops.capacity">160. Capacity Planning and Region Sizing</a></li>
+<li><a href="#table.rename">161. Table Rename</a></li>
+<li><a href="#rsgroup">162. RegionServer Grouping</a></li>
+<li><a href="#normalizer">163. Region Normalizer</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#developer">Building and Developing Apache HBase</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#getting.involved">163. Getting Involved</a></li>
-<li><a href="#repos">164. Apache HBase Repositories</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_ides">165. IDEs</a></li>
-<li><a href="#build">166. Building Apache HBase</a></li>
-<li><a href="#releasing">167. Releasing Apache HBase</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase.rc.voting">168. Voting on Release Candidates</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase.release.announcement">169. Announcing Releases</a></li>
-<li><a href="#documentation">170. Generating the HBase Reference Guide</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase.org">171. Updating <a href="https://hbase.apache.org">hbase.apache.org</a></a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase.tests">172. Tests</a></li>
-<li><a href="#developing">173. Developer Guidelines</a></li>
+<li><a href="#getting.involved">164. Getting Involved</a></li>
+<li><a href="#repos">165. Apache HBase Repositories</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_ides">166. IDEs</a></li>
+<li><a href="#build">167. Building Apache HBase</a></li>
+<li><a href="#releasing">168. Releasing Apache HBase</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase.rc.voting">169. Voting on Release Candidates</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase.release.announcement">170. Announcing Releases</a></li>
+<li><a href="#documentation">171. Generating the HBase Reference Guide</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase.org">172. Updating <a href="https://hbase.apache.org">hbase.apache.org</a></a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase.tests">173. Tests</a></li>
+<li><a href="#developing">174. Developer Guidelines</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#unit.tests">Unit Testing HBase Applications</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_junit">174. JUnit</a></li>
-<li><a href="#mockito">175. Mockito</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_mrunit">176. MRUnit</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_integration_testing_with_an_hbase_mini_cluster">177. Integration Testing with an HBase Mini-Cluster</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_junit">175. JUnit</a></li>
+<li><a href="#mockito">176. Mockito</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_mrunit">177. MRUnit</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_integration_testing_with_an_hbase_mini_cluster">178. Integration Testing with an HBase Mini-Cluster</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#protobuf">Protobuf in HBase</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_protobuf">178. Protobuf</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_protobuf">179. Protobuf</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#pv2">Procedure Framework (Pv2): <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12439">HBASE-12439</a></a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_procedures">179. Procedures</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_subprocedures">180. Subprocedures</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_procedureexecutor">181. ProcedureExecutor</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_nonces">182. Nonces</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_wait_wake_suspend_yield">183. Wait/Wake/Suspend/Yield</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_locking">184. Locking</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_procedure_types">185. Procedure Types</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_references">186. References</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_procedures">180. Procedures</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_subprocedures">181. Subprocedures</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_procedureexecutor">182. ProcedureExecutor</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_nonces">183. Nonces</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_wait_wake_suspend_yield">184. Wait/Wake/Suspend/Yield</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_locking">185. Locking</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_procedure_types">186. Procedure Types</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_references">187. References</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#amv2">AMv2 Description for Devs</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_background_2">187. Background</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_new_system">188. New System</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_procedures_detail">189. Procedures Detail</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_ui">190. UI</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_logging">191. Logging</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_implementation_notes">192. Implementation Notes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_new_configs">193. New Configs</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_tools">194. Tools</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_background_2">188. Background</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_new_system">189. New System</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_procedures_detail">190. Procedures Detail</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_ui">191. UI</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_logging">192. Logging</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_implementation_notes">193. Implementation Notes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_new_configs">194. New Configs</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_tools">195. Tools</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#zookeeper">ZooKeeper</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_using_existing_zookeeper_ensemble">195. Using existing ZooKeeper ensemble</a></li>
-<li><a href="#zk.sasl.auth">196. SASL Authentication with ZooKeeper</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_using_existing_zookeeper_ensemble">196. Using existing ZooKeeper ensemble</a></li>
+<li><a href="#zk.sasl.auth">197. SASL Authentication with ZooKeeper</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#community">Community</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel1">
-<li><a href="#_decisions">197. Decisions</a></li>
-<li><a href="#community.roles">198. Community Roles</a></li>
-<li><a href="#hbase.commit.msg.format">199. Commit Message format</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_decisions">198. Decisions</a></li>
+<li><a href="#community.roles">199. Community Roles</a></li>
+<li><a href="#hbase.commit.msg.format">200. Commit Message format</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#_appendix">Appendix</a>
@@ -352,11 +353,11 @@
 <li><a href="#asf">Appendix J: HBase and the Apache Software Foundation</a></li>
 <li><a href="#orca">Appendix K: Apache HBase Orca</a></li>
 <li><a href="#tracing">Appendix L: Enabling Dapper-like Tracing in HBase</a></li>
-<li><a href="#tracing.client.modifications">200. Client Modifications</a></li>
-<li><a href="#tracing.client.shell">201. Tracing from HBase Shell</a></li>
+<li><a href="#tracing.client.modifications">201. Client Modifications</a></li>
+<li><a href="#tracing.client.shell">202. Tracing from HBase Shell</a></li>
 <li><a href="#hbase.rpc">Appendix M: 0.95 RPC Specification</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_known_incompatibilities_among_hbase_versions">Appendix N: Known Incompatibilities Among HBase Versions</a></li>
-<li><a href="#_hbase_2_0_incompatible_changes">202. HBase 2.0 Incompatible Changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#_hbase_2_0_incompatible_changes">203. HBase 2.0 Incompatible Changes</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
@@ -7702,10 +7703,30 @@ The command should be run all on a single line, but is broken by the <code>\</co
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_shell_tricks"><a class="anchor" href="#_shell_tricks"></a>19. Shell Tricks</h2>
+<h2 id="_overriding_configuration_starting_the_hbase_shell"><a class="anchor" href="#_overriding_configuration_starting_the_hbase_shell"></a>19. Overriding configuration starting the HBase Shell</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph">
+<p>As of hbase-2.0.5/hbase-2.1.3/hbase-2.2.0/hbase-1.4.10/hbase-1.5.0, you can
+pass or override hbase configuration as specified in <code>hbase-*.xml</code> by passing
+your key/values prefixed with <code>-D</code> on the command-line as follows:</p>
+</div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content">
+<pre class="CodeRay highlight"><code data-lang="bash">$ ./bin/hbase shell -Dhbase.zookeeper.quorum=ZK0.remote.cluster.example.org,ZK1.remote.cluster.example.org,ZK2.remote.cluster.example.org -Draining=false
+...
+hbase(main):001:0&gt; @shell.hbase.configuration.get(&quot;hbase.zookeeper.quorum&quot;)
+=&gt; &quot;ZK0.remote.cluster.example.org,ZK1.remote.cluster.example.org,ZK2.remote.cluster.example.org&quot;
+hbase(main):002:0&gt; @shell.hbase.configuration.get(&quot;raining&quot;)
+=&gt; &quot;false&quot;</code></pre>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_shell_tricks"><a class="anchor" href="#_shell_tricks"></a>20. Shell Tricks</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_table_variables"><a class="anchor" href="#_table_variables"></a>19.1. Table variables</h3>
+<h3 id="_table_variables"><a class="anchor" href="#_table_variables"></a>20.1. Table variables</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>HBase 0.95 adds shell commands that provides jruby-style object-oriented references for tables.
 Previously all of the shell commands that act upon a table have a procedural style that always took the name of the table as an argument.
@@ -7816,7 +7837,7 @@ hbase(main):018:0&gt;</pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="irbrc"><a class="anchor" href="#irbrc"></a>19.2. <em>irbrc</em></h3>
+<h3 id="irbrc"><a class="anchor" href="#irbrc"></a>20.2. <em>irbrc</em></h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Create an <em>.irbrc</em> file for yourself in your home directory.
 Add customizations.
@@ -7843,7 +7864,7 @@ IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = &quot;#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-save-history&quot;</code></p
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_log_data_to_timestamp"><a class="anchor" href="#_log_data_to_timestamp"></a>19.3. LOG data to timestamp</h3>
+<h3 id="_log_data_to_timestamp"><a class="anchor" href="#_log_data_to_timestamp"></a>20.3. LOG data to timestamp</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>To convert the date '08/08/16 20:56:29' from an hbase log into a timestamp, do:</p>
 </div>
@@ -7868,7 +7889,7 @@ hbase(main):022:0&gt; Date.new(1218920189000).toString() =&gt; "Sat Aug 16 20:56
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_query_shell_configuration"><a class="anchor" href="#_query_shell_configuration"></a>19.4. Query Shell Configuration</h3>
+<h3 id="_query_shell_configuration"><a class="anchor" href="#_query_shell_configuration"></a>20.4. Query Shell Configuration</h3>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre>hbase(main):001:0&gt; @shell.hbase.configuration.get("hbase.rpc.timeout")
@@ -7887,7 +7908,7 @@ hbase(main):006:0&gt; @shell.hbase.configuration.get("hbase.rpc.timeout")
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="tricks.pre-split"><a class="anchor" href="#tricks.pre-split"></a>19.5. Pre-splitting tables with the HBase Shell</h3>
+<h3 id="tricks.pre-split"><a class="anchor" href="#tricks.pre-split"></a>20.5. Pre-splitting tables with the HBase Shell</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>You can use a variety of options to pre-split tables when creating them via the HBase Shell <code>create</code> command.</p>
 </div>
@@ -7958,9 +7979,9 @@ If you need to truncate a pre-split table, you must drop and recreate the table
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_debug"><a class="anchor" href="#_debug"></a>19.6. Debug</h3>
+<h3 id="_debug"><a class="anchor" href="#_debug"></a>20.6. Debug</h3>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_shell_debug_switch"><a class="anchor" href="#_shell_debug_switch"></a>19.6.1. Shell debug switch</h4>
+<h4 id="_shell_debug_switch"><a class="anchor" href="#_shell_debug_switch"></a>20.6.1. Shell debug switch</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>You can set a debug switch in the shell to see more output&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;e.g.
 more of the stack trace on exception&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;when you run a command:</p>
@@ -7972,7 +7993,7 @@ more of the stack trace on exception&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;when you run a command:
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_debug_log_level"><a class="anchor" href="#_debug_log_level"></a>19.6.2. DEBUG log level</h4>
+<h4 id="_debug_log_level"><a class="anchor" href="#_debug_log_level"></a>20.6.2. DEBUG log level</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>To enable DEBUG level logging in the shell, launch it with the <code>-d</code> option.</p>
 </div>
@@ -7984,9 +8005,9 @@ more of the stack trace on exception&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;when you run a command:
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_commands"><a class="anchor" href="#_commands"></a>19.7. Commands</h3>
+<h3 id="_commands"><a class="anchor" href="#_commands"></a>20.7. Commands</h3>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_count"><a class="anchor" href="#_count"></a>19.7.1. count</h4>
+<h4 id="_count"><a class="anchor" href="#_count"></a>20.7.1. count</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Count command returns the number of rows in a table.
 It&#8217;s quite fast when configured with the right CACHE</p>
@@ -8059,7 +8080,7 @@ By default, the timestamp represents the time on the RegionServer when the data
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="conceptual.view"><a class="anchor" href="#conceptual.view"></a>20. Conceptual View</h2>
+<h2 id="conceptual.view"><a class="anchor" href="#conceptual.view"></a>21. Conceptual View</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>You can read a very understandable explanation of the HBase data model in the blog post <a href="http://jimbojw.com/#understanding%20hbase">Understanding HBase and BigTable</a> by Jim R. Wilson.
@@ -8193,7 +8214,7 @@ This is only a mock-up for illustrative purposes and may not be strictly accurat
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="physical.view"><a class="anchor" href="#physical.view"></a>21. Physical View</h2>
+<h2 id="physical.view"><a class="anchor" href="#physical.view"></a>22. Physical View</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Although at a conceptual level tables may be viewed as a sparse set of rows, they are physically stored by column family.
@@ -8272,7 +8293,7 @@ Thus a request for the values of all columns in the row <code>com.cnn.www</code>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_namespace"><a class="anchor" href="#_namespace"></a>22. Namespace</h2>
+<h2 id="_namespace"><a class="anchor" href="#_namespace"></a>23. Namespace</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>A namespace is a logical grouping of tables analogous to a database in relation database systems.
@@ -8292,7 +8313,7 @@ This abstraction lays the groundwork for upcoming multi-tenancy related features
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="namespace_creation"><a class="anchor" href="#namespace_creation"></a>22.1. Namespace management</h3>
+<h3 id="namespace_creation"><a class="anchor" href="#namespace_creation"></a>23.1. Namespace management</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>A namespace can be created, removed or altered.
 Namespace membership is determined during table creation by specifying a fully-qualified table name of the form:</p>
@@ -8333,7 +8354,7 @@ alter_namespace 'my_ns', {METHOD =&gt; 'set', 'PROPERTY_NAME' =&gt; 'PROPERTY_VA
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="namespace_special"><a class="anchor" href="#namespace_special"></a>22.2. Predefined namespaces</h3>
+<h3 id="namespace_special"><a class="anchor" href="#namespace_special"></a>23.2. Predefined namespaces</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>There are two predefined special namespaces:</p>
 </div>
@@ -8365,7 +8386,7 @@ create 'bar', 'fam'</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_table"><a class="anchor" href="#_table"></a>23. Table</h2>
+<h2 id="_table"><a class="anchor" href="#_table"></a>24. Table</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Tables are declared up front at schema definition time.</p>
@@ -8373,7 +8394,7 @@ create 'bar', 'fam'</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_row"><a class="anchor" href="#_row"></a>24. Row</h2>
+<h2 id="_row"><a class="anchor" href="#_row"></a>25. Row</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Row keys are uninterpreted bytes.
@@ -8383,7 +8404,7 @@ The empty byte array is used to denote both the start and end of a tables' names
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="columnfamily"><a class="anchor" href="#columnfamily"></a>25. Column Family</h2>
+<h2 id="columnfamily"><a class="anchor" href="#columnfamily"></a>26. Column Family</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Columns in Apache HBase are grouped into <em>column families</em>.
@@ -8401,7 +8422,7 @@ Because tunings and storage specifications are done at the column family level,
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_cells"><a class="anchor" href="#_cells"></a>26. Cells</h2>
+<h2 id="_cells"><a class="anchor" href="#_cells"></a>27. Cells</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>A <em>{row, column, version}</em> tuple exactly specifies a <code>cell</code> in HBase.
@@ -8410,27 +8431,27 @@ Cell content is uninterpreted bytes</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_data_model_operations"><a class="anchor" href="#_data_model_operations"></a>27. Data Model Operations</h2>
+<h2 id="_data_model_operations"><a class="anchor" href="#_data_model_operations"></a>28. Data Model Operations</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The four primary data model operations are Get, Put, Scan, and Delete.
 Operations are applied via <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Table.html">Table</a> instances.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_get"><a class="anchor" href="#_get"></a>27.1. Get</h3>
+<h3 id="_get"><a class="anchor" href="#_get"></a>28.1. Get</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p><a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Get.html">Get</a> returns attributes for a specified row.
 Gets are executed via <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Table.html#get-org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get-">Table.get</a></p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_put"><a class="anchor" href="#_put"></a>27.2. Put</h3>
+<h3 id="_put"><a class="anchor" href="#_put"></a>28.2. Put</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p><a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Put.html">Put</a> either adds new rows to a table (if the key is new) or can update existing rows (if the key already exists). Puts are executed via <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Table.html#put-org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Put-">Table.put</a> (non-writeBuffer) or <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Table.html#batch-java.util.List-java.lang.Object:A-">Table.batch</a> (non-writeBuffer)</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="scan"><a class="anchor" href="#scan"></a>27.3. Scans</h3>
+<h3 id="scan"><a class="anchor" href="#scan"></a>28.3. Scans</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p><a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Scan.html">Scan</a> allow iteration over multiple rows for specified attributes.</p>
 </div>
@@ -8464,7 +8485,7 @@ ResultScanner rs = table.getScanner(scan);
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_delete"><a class="anchor" href="#_delete"></a>27.4. Delete</h3>
+<h3 id="_delete"><a class="anchor" href="#_delete"></a>28.4. Delete</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p><a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Delete.html">Delete</a> removes a row from a table.
 Deletes are executed via <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Table.html#delete-org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Delete-">Table.delete</a>.</p>
@@ -8480,7 +8501,7 @@ These tombstones, along with the dead values, are cleaned up on major compaction
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="versions"><a class="anchor" href="#versions"></a>28. Versions</h2>
+<h2 id="versions"><a class="anchor" href="#versions"></a>29. Versions</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>A <em>{row, column, version}</em> tuple exactly specifies a <code>cell</code> in HBase.
@@ -8517,7 +8538,7 @@ It has more detail on versioning than is provided here.</p>
 This section is basically a synopsis of this article by Bruno Dumon.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="specify.number.of.versions"><a class="anchor" href="#specify.number.of.versions"></a>28.1. Specifying the Number of Versions to Store</h3>
+<h3 id="specify.number.of.versions"><a class="anchor" href="#specify.number.of.versions"></a>29.1. Specifying the Number of Versions to Store</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The maximum number of versions to store for a given column is part of the column schema and is specified at table creation, or via an <code>alter</code> command, via <code>HColumnDescriptor.DEFAULT_VERSIONS</code>.
 Prior to HBase 0.96, the default number of versions kept was <code>3</code>, but in 0.96 and newer has been changed to <code>1</code>.</p>
@@ -8558,12 +8579,12 @@ See <a href="#hbase.column.max.version">hbase.column.max.version</a>.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="versions.ops"><a class="anchor" href="#versions.ops"></a>28.2. Versions and HBase Operations</h3>
+<h3 id="versions.ops"><a class="anchor" href="#versions.ops"></a>29.2. Versions and HBase Operations</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>In this section we look at the behavior of the version dimension for each of the core HBase operations.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_get_scan"><a class="anchor" href="#_get_scan"></a>28.2.1. Get/Scan</h4>
+<h4 id="_get_scan"><a class="anchor" href="#_get_scan"></a>29.2.1. Get/Scan</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Gets are implemented on top of Scans.
 The below discussion of <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Get.html">Get</a> applies equally to <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Scan.html">Scans</a>.</p>
@@ -8586,7 +8607,7 @@ The below discussion of <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/had
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_default_get_example"><a class="anchor" href="#_default_get_example"></a>28.2.2. Default Get Example</h4>
+<h4 id="_default_get_example"><a class="anchor" href="#_default_get_example"></a>29.2.2. Default Get Example</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The following Get will only retrieve the current version of the row</p>
 </div>
@@ -8602,7 +8623,7 @@ Get get = <span class="keyword">new</span> Get(Bytes.toBytes(<span class="string
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_versioned_get_example"><a class="anchor" href="#_versioned_get_example"></a>28.2.3. Versioned Get Example</h4>
+<h4 id="_versioned_get_example"><a class="anchor" href="#_versioned_get_example"></a>29.2.3. Versioned Get Example</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The following Get will return the last 3 versions of the row.</p>
 </div>
@@ -8620,7 +8641,7 @@ get.setMaxVersions(<span class="integer">3</span>);  <span class="comment">// wi
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_put_2"><a class="anchor" href="#_put_2"></a>28.2.4. Put</h4>
+<h4 id="_put_2"><a class="anchor" href="#_put_2"></a>29.2.4. Put</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Doing a put always creates a new version of a <code>cell</code>, at a certain timestamp.
 By default the system uses the server&#8217;s <code>currentTimeMillis</code>, but you can specify the version (= the long integer) yourself, on a per-column level.
@@ -8669,7 +8690,7 @@ Prefer using a separate timestamp attribute of the row, or have the timestamp as
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="version.delete"><a class="anchor" href="#version.delete"></a>28.2.5. Delete</h4>
+<h4 id="version.delete"><a class="anchor" href="#version.delete"></a>29.2.5. Delete</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>There are three different types of internal delete markers.
 See Lars Hofhansl&#8217;s blog for discussion of his attempt adding another, <a href="http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2012/01/scanning-in-hbase.html">Scanning in HBase: Prefix Delete Marker</a>.</p>
@@ -8728,7 +8749,7 @@ The change has been backported to HBase 0.94 and newer branches.
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="new.version.behavior"><a class="anchor" href="#new.version.behavior"></a>28.3. Optional New Version and Delete behavior in HBase-2.0.0</h3>
+<h3 id="new.version.behavior"><a class="anchor" href="#new.version.behavior"></a>29.3. Optional New Version and Delete behavior in HBase-2.0.0</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>In <code>hbase-2.0.0</code>, the operator can specify an alternate version and
 delete treatment by setting the column descriptor property
@@ -8761,13 +8782,13 @@ the order in which Mutations arrive is a factor.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_current_limitations"><a class="anchor" href="#_current_limitations"></a>28.4. Current Limitations</h3>
+<h3 id="_current_limitations"><a class="anchor" href="#_current_limitations"></a>29.4. Current Limitations</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The below limitations are addressed in hbase-2.0.0. See
 the section above, <a href="#new.version.behavior">Optional New Version and Delete behavior in HBase-2.0.0</a>.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_deletes_mask_puts"><a class="anchor" href="#_deletes_mask_puts"></a>28.4.1. Deletes mask Puts</h4>
+<h4 id="_deletes_mask_puts"><a class="anchor" href="#_deletes_mask_puts"></a>29.4.1. Deletes mask Puts</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Deletes mask puts, even puts that happened after the delete was entered.
 See <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2256">HBASE-2256</a>.
@@ -8782,7 +8803,7 @@ But they can occur even if you do not care about time: just do delete and put im
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="major.compactions.change.query.results"><a class="anchor" href="#major.compactions.change.query.results"></a>28.4.2. Major compactions change query results</h4>
+<h4 id="major.compactions.change.query.results"><a class="anchor" href="#major.compactions.change.query.results"></a>29.4.2. Major compactions change query results</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p><em>&#8230;&#8203;create three cell versions at t1, t2 and t3, with a maximum-versions
     setting of 2. So when getting all versions, only the values at t2 and t3 will be
@@ -8795,7 +8816,7 @@ But they can occur even if you do not care about time: just do delete and put im
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="dm.sort"><a class="anchor" href="#dm.sort"></a>29. Sort Order</h2>
+<h2 id="dm.sort"><a class="anchor" href="#dm.sort"></a>30. Sort Order</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>All data model operations HBase return data in sorted order.
@@ -8804,7 +8825,7 @@ First by row, then by ColumnFamily, followed by column qualifier, and finally ti
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="dm.column.metadata"><a class="anchor" href="#dm.column.metadata"></a>30. Column Metadata</h2>
+<h2 id="dm.column.metadata"><a class="anchor" href="#dm.column.metadata"></a>31. Column Metadata</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>There is no store of column metadata outside of the internal KeyValue instances for a ColumnFamily.
@@ -8817,7 +8838,7 @@ For more information about how HBase stores data internally, see <a href="#keyva
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="joins"><a class="anchor" href="#joins"></a>31. Joins</h2>
+<h2 id="joins"><a class="anchor" href="#joins"></a>32. Joins</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Whether HBase supports joins is a common question on the dist-list, and there is a simple answer:  it doesn&#8217;t, at not least in the way that RDBMS' support them (e.g., with equi-joins or outer-joins in SQL).  As has been illustrated in this chapter, the read data model operations in HBase are Get and Scan.</p>
@@ -8830,7 +8851,7 @@ hash-joins). So which is the best approach? It depends on what you are trying to
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_acid"><a class="anchor" href="#_acid"></a>32. ACID</h2>
+<h2 id="_acid"><a class="anchor" href="#_acid"></a>33. ACID</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>See <a href="/acid-semantics.html">ACID Semantics</a>.
@@ -8863,7 +8884,7 @@ modeling on HBase.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="schema.creation"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.creation"></a>33. Schema Creation</h2>
+<h2 id="schema.creation"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.creation"></a>34. Schema Creation</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>HBase schemas can be created or updated using the <a href="#shell">The Apache HBase Shell</a> or by using <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Admin.html">Admin</a> in the Java API.</p>
@@ -8903,7 +8924,7 @@ online schema changes are supported in the 0.92.x codebase, but the 0.90.x codeb
 </table>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="schema.updates"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.updates"></a>33.1. Schema Updates</h3>
+<h3 id="schema.updates"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.updates"></a>34.1. Schema Updates</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>When changes are made to either Tables or ColumnFamilies (e.g. region size, block size), these changes take effect the next time there is a major compaction and the StoreFiles get re-written.</p>
 </div>
@@ -8914,7 +8935,7 @@ online schema changes are supported in the 0.92.x codebase, but the 0.90.x codeb
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="table_schema_rules_of_thumb"><a class="anchor" href="#table_schema_rules_of_thumb"></a>34. Table Schema Rules Of Thumb</h2>
+<h2 id="table_schema_rules_of_thumb"><a class="anchor" href="#table_schema_rules_of_thumb"></a>35. Table Schema Rules Of Thumb</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>There are many different data sets, with different access patterns and service-level
@@ -8987,7 +9008,7 @@ defaults).</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="number.of.cfs"><a class="anchor" href="#number.of.cfs"></a>35. On the number of column families</h2>
+<h2 id="number.of.cfs"><a class="anchor" href="#number.of.cfs"></a>36. On the number of column families</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>HBase currently does not do well with anything above two or three column families so keep the number of column families in your schema low.
@@ -9000,7 +9021,7 @@ Only introduce a second and third column family in the case where data access is
 you query one column family or the other but usually not both at the one time.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="number.of.cfs.card"><a class="anchor" href="#number.of.cfs.card"></a>35.1. Cardinality of ColumnFamilies</h3>
+<h3 id="number.of.cfs.card"><a class="anchor" href="#number.of.cfs.card"></a>36.1. Cardinality of ColumnFamilies</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Where multiple ColumnFamilies exist in a single table, be aware of the cardinality (i.e., number of rows). If ColumnFamilyA has 1 million rows and ColumnFamilyB has 1 billion rows, ColumnFamilyA&#8217;s data will likely be spread across many, many regions (and RegionServers). This makes mass scans for ColumnFamilyA less efficient.</p>
 </div>
@@ -9008,10 +9029,10 @@ you query one column family or the other but usually not both at the one time.</
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="rowkey.design"><a class="anchor" href="#rowkey.design"></a>36. Rowkey Design</h2>
+<h2 id="rowkey.design"><a class="anchor" href="#rowkey.design"></a>37. Rowkey Design</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_hotspotting"><a class="anchor" href="#_hotspotting"></a>36.1. Hotspotting</h3>
+<h3 id="_hotspotting"><a class="anchor" href="#_hotspotting"></a>37.1. Hotspotting</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Rows in HBase are sorted lexicographically by row key.
 This design optimizes for scans, allowing you to store related rows, or rows that will be read together, near each other.
@@ -9107,7 +9128,7 @@ This effectively randomizes row keys, but sacrifices row ordering properties.</p
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="timeseries"><a class="anchor" href="#timeseries"></a>36.2. Monotonically Increasing Row Keys/Timeseries Data</h3>
+<h3 id="timeseries"><a class="anchor" href="#timeseries"></a>37.2. Monotonically Increasing Row Keys/Timeseries Data</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>In the HBase chapter of Tom White&#8217;s book <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521981">Hadoop: The Definitive Guide</a> (O&#8217;Reilly) there is a an optimization note on watching out for a phenomenon where an import process walks in lock-step with all clients in concert pounding one of the table&#8217;s regions (and thus, a single node), then moving onto the next region, etc.
 With monotonically increasing row-keys (i.e., using a timestamp), this will happen.
@@ -9126,7 +9147,7 @@ Thus, even with a continual stream of input data with a mix of metric types, the
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="keysize"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize"></a>36.3. Try to minimize row and column sizes</h3>
+<h3 id="keysize"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize"></a>37.3. Try to minimize row and column sizes</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>In HBase, values are always freighted with their coordinates; as a cell value passes through the system, it&#8217;ll be accompanied by its row, column name, and timestamp - always.
 If your rows and column names are large, especially compared to the size of the cell value, then you may run up against some interesting scenarios.
@@ -9143,7 +9164,7 @@ Whatever patterns are selected for ColumnFamilies, attributes, and rowkeys they
 <p>See <a href="#keyvalue">keyvalue</a> for more information on HBase stores data internally to see why this is important.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="keysize.cf"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize.cf"></a>36.3.1. Column Families</h4>
+<h4 id="keysize.cf"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize.cf"></a>37.3.1. Column Families</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Try to keep the ColumnFamily names as small as possible, preferably one character (e.g. "d" for data/default).</p>
 </div>
@@ -9152,7 +9173,7 @@ Whatever patterns are selected for ColumnFamilies, attributes, and rowkeys they
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="keysize.attributes"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize.attributes"></a>36.3.2. Attributes</h4>
+<h4 id="keysize.attributes"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize.attributes"></a>37.3.2. Attributes</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Although verbose attribute names (e.g., "myVeryImportantAttribute") are easier to read, prefer shorter attribute names (e.g., "via") to store in HBase.</p>
 </div>
@@ -9161,7 +9182,7 @@ Whatever patterns are selected for ColumnFamilies, attributes, and rowkeys they
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="keysize.row"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize.row"></a>36.3.3. Rowkey Length</h4>
+<h4 id="keysize.row"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize.row"></a>37.3.3. Rowkey Length</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Keep them as short as is reasonable such that they can still be useful for required data access (e.g. Get vs.
 Scan). A short key that is useless for data access is not better than a longer key with better get/scan properties.
@@ -9169,7 +9190,7 @@ Expect tradeoffs when designing rowkeys.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="keysize.patterns"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize.patterns"></a>36.3.4. Byte Patterns</h4>
+<h4 id="keysize.patterns"><a class="anchor" href="#keysize.patterns"></a>37.3.4. Byte Patterns</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>A long is 8 bytes.
 You can store an unsigned number up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 in those eight bytes.
@@ -9225,7 +9246,7 @@ This is the main trade-off.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="reverse.timestamp"><a class="anchor" href="#reverse.timestamp"></a>36.4. Reverse Timestamps</h3>
+<h3 id="reverse.timestamp"><a class="anchor" href="#reverse.timestamp"></a>37.4. Reverse Timestamps</h3>
 <div class="admonitionblock note">
 <table>
 <tr>
@@ -9257,14 +9278,14 @@ Since HBase keys are in sorted order, this key sorts before any older row-keys f
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="rowkey.scope"><a class="anchor" href="#rowkey.scope"></a>36.5. Rowkeys and ColumnFamilies</h3>
+<h3 id="rowkey.scope"><a class="anchor" href="#rowkey.scope"></a>37.5. Rowkeys and ColumnFamilies</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Rowkeys are scoped to ColumnFamilies.
 Thus, the same rowkey could exist in each ColumnFamily that exists in a table without collision.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="changing.rowkeys"><a class="anchor" href="#changing.rowkeys"></a>36.6. Immutability of Rowkeys</h3>
+<h3 id="changing.rowkeys"><a class="anchor" href="#changing.rowkeys"></a>37.6. Immutability of Rowkeys</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Rowkeys cannot be changed.
 The only way they can be "changed" in a table is if the row is deleted and then re-inserted.
@@ -9272,7 +9293,7 @@ This is a fairly common question on the HBase dist-list so it pays to get the ro
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="rowkey.regionsplits"><a class="anchor" href="#rowkey.regionsplits"></a>36.7. Relationship Between RowKeys and Region Splits</h3>
+<h3 id="rowkey.regionsplits"><a class="anchor" href="#rowkey.regionsplits"></a>37.7. Relationship Between RowKeys and Region Splits</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>If you pre-split your table, it is <em>critical</em> to understand how your rowkey will be distributed across the region boundaries.
 As an example of why this is important, consider the example of using displayable hex characters as the lead position of the key (e.g., "0000000000000000" to "ffffffffffffffff"). Running those key ranges through <code>Bytes.split</code> (which is the split strategy used when creating regions in <code>Admin.createTable(byte[] startKey, byte[] endKey, numRegions)</code> for 10 regions will generate the following splits&#8230;&#8203;</p>
@@ -9344,10 +9365,10 @@ Know your data.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="schema.versions"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.versions"></a>37. Number of Versions</h2>
+<h2 id="schema.versions"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.versions"></a>38. Number of Versions</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="schema.versions.max"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.versions.max"></a>37.1. Maximum Number of Versions</h3>
+<h3 id="schema.versions.max"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.versions.max"></a>38.1. Maximum Number of Versions</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The maximum number of row versions to store is configured per column family via <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HColumnDescriptor.html">HColumnDescriptor</a>.
 The default for max versions is 1.
@@ -9359,7 +9380,7 @@ The number of max versions may need to be increased or decreased depending on ap
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="schema.minversions"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.minversions"></a>37.2. Minimum Number of Versions</h3>
+<h3 id="schema.minversions"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.minversions"></a>38.2. Minimum Number of Versions</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Like maximum number of row versions, the minimum number of row versions to keep is configured per column family via <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HColumnDescriptor.html">HColumnDescriptor</a>.
 The default for min versions is 0, which means the feature is disabled.
@@ -9369,7 +9390,7 @@ The minimum number of row versions parameter is used together with the time-to-l
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="supported.datatypes"><a class="anchor" href="#supported.datatypes"></a>38. Supported Datatypes</h2>
+<h2 id="supported.datatypes"><a class="anchor" href="#supported.datatypes"></a>39. Supported Datatypes</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>HBase supports a "bytes-in/bytes-out" interface via <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Put.html">Put</a> and <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Result.html">Result</a>, so anything that can be converted to an array of bytes can be stored as a value.
@@ -9381,7 +9402,7 @@ All rows in HBase conform to the <a href="#datamodel">Data Model</a>, and that i
 Take that into consideration when making your design, as well as block size for the ColumnFamily.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_counters"><a class="anchor" href="#_counters"></a>38.1. Counters</h3>
+<h3 id="_counters"><a class="anchor" href="#_counters"></a>39.1. Counters</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>One supported datatype that deserves special mention are "counters" (i.e., the ability to do atomic increments of numbers). See <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Table.html#increment%28org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Increment%29">Increment</a> in <code>Table</code>.</p>
 </div>
@@ -9392,7 +9413,7 @@ Take that into consideration when making your design, as well as block size for
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="schema.joins"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.joins"></a>39. Joins</h2>
+<h2 id="schema.joins"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.joins"></a>40. Joins</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>If you have multiple tables, don&#8217;t forget to factor in the potential for <a href="#joins">Joins</a> into the schema design.</p>
@@ -9400,7 +9421,7 @@ Take that into consideration when making your design, as well as block size for
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="ttl"><a class="anchor" href="#ttl"></a>40. Time To Live (TTL)</h2>
+<h2 id="ttl"><a class="anchor" href="#ttl"></a>41. Time To Live (TTL)</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>ColumnFamilies can set a TTL length in seconds, and HBase will automatically delete rows once the expiration time is reached.
@@ -9435,7 +9456,7 @@ There are two notable differences between cell TTL handling and ColumnFamily TTL
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="cf.keep.deleted"><a class="anchor" href="#cf.keep.deleted"></a>41. Keeping Deleted Cells</h2>
+<h2 id="cf.keep.deleted"><a class="anchor" href="#cf.keep.deleted"></a>42. Keeping Deleted Cells</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>By default, delete markers extend back to the beginning of time.
@@ -9572,7 +9593,7 @@ So with KEEP_DELETED_CELLS enabled deleted cells would get removed if either you
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="secondary.indexes"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes"></a>42. Secondary Indexes and Alternate Query Paths</h2>
+<h2 id="secondary.indexes"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes"></a>43. Secondary Indexes and Alternate Query Paths</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>This section could also be titled "what if my table rowkey looks like <em>this</em> but I also want to query my table like <em>that</em>." A common example on the dist-list is where a row-key is of the format "user-timestamp" but there are reporting requirements on activity across users for certain time ranges.
@@ -9615,7 +9636,7 @@ However, HBase scales better at larger data volumes, so this is a feature trade-
 <p>Additionally, see the David Butler response in this dist-list thread <a href="http://search-hadoop.com/m/nvbiBp2TDP/Stargate%252Bhbase&amp;subj=Stargate+hbase">HBase, mail # user - Stargate+hbase</a></p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="secondary.indexes.filter"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.filter"></a>42.1. Filter Query</h3>
+<h3 id="secondary.indexes.filter"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.filter"></a>43.1. Filter Query</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Depending on the case, it may be appropriate to use <a href="#client.filter">Client Request Filters</a>.
 In this case, no secondary index is created.
@@ -9623,7 +9644,7 @@ However, don&#8217;t try a full-scan on a large table like this from an applicat
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="secondary.indexes.periodic"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.periodic"></a>42.2. Periodic-Update Secondary Index</h3>
+<h3 id="secondary.indexes.periodic"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.periodic"></a>43.2. Periodic-Update Secondary Index</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>A secondary index could be created in another table which is periodically updated via a MapReduce job.
 The job could be executed intra-day, but depending on load-strategy it could still potentially be out of sync with the main data table.</p>
@@ -9633,13 +9654,13 @@ The job could be executed intra-day, but depending on load-strategy it could sti
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="secondary.indexes.dualwrite"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.dualwrite"></a>42.3. Dual-Write Secondary Index</h3>
+<h3 id="secondary.indexes.dualwrite"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.dualwrite"></a>43.3. Dual-Write Secondary Index</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Another strategy is to build the secondary index while publishing data to the cluster (e.g., write to data table, write to index table). If this is approach is taken after a data table already exists, then bootstrapping will be needed for the secondary index with a MapReduce job (see <a href="#secondary.indexes.periodic">secondary.indexes.periodic</a>).</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="secondary.indexes.summary"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.summary"></a>42.4. Summary Tables</h3>
+<h3 id="secondary.indexes.summary"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.summary"></a>43.4. Summary Tables</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Where time-ranges are very wide (e.g., year-long report) and where the data is voluminous, summary tables are a common approach.
 These would be generated with MapReduce jobs into another table.</p>
@@ -9649,7 +9670,7 @@ These would be generated with MapReduce jobs into another table.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="secondary.indexes.coproc"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.coproc"></a>42.5. Coprocessor Secondary Index</h3>
+<h3 id="secondary.indexes.coproc"><a class="anchor" href="#secondary.indexes.coproc"></a>43.5. Coprocessor Secondary Index</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Coprocessors act like RDBMS triggers. These were added in 0.92.
 For more information, see <a href="#cp">coprocessors</a></p>
@@ -9658,7 +9679,7 @@ For more information, see <a href="#cp">coprocessors</a></p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_constraints"><a class="anchor" href="#_constraints"></a>43. Constraints</h2>
+<h2 id="_constraints"><a class="anchor" href="#_constraints"></a>44. Constraints</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>HBase currently supports 'constraints' in traditional (SQL) database parlance.
@@ -9673,7 +9694,7 @@ since version 0.94.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="schema.casestudies"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies"></a>44. Schema Design Case Studies</h2>
+<h2 id="schema.casestudies"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies"></a>45. Schema Design Case Studies</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The following will describe some typical data ingestion use-cases with HBase, and how the rowkey design and construction can be approached.
@@ -9706,7 +9727,7 @@ Know your data, and know your processing requirements.</p>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries"></a>44.1. Case Study - Log Data and Timeseries Data</h3>
+<h3 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries"></a>45.1. Case Study - Log Data and Timeseries Data</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Assume that the following data elements are being collected.</p>
 </div>
@@ -9730,7 +9751,7 @@ Know your data, and know your processing requirements.</p>
 <p>We can store them in an HBase table called LOG_DATA, but what will the rowkey be? From these attributes the rowkey will be some combination of hostname, timestamp, and log-event - but what specifically?</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.tslead"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.tslead"></a>44.1.1. Timestamp In The Rowkey Lead Position</h4>
+<h4 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.tslead"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.tslead"></a>45.1.1. Timestamp In The Rowkey Lead Position</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The rowkey <code>[timestamp][hostname][log-event]</code> suffers from the monotonically increasing rowkey problem described in <a href="#timeseries">Monotonically Increasing Row Keys/Timeseries Data</a>.</p>
 </div>
@@ -9758,14 +9779,14 @@ Attention must be paid to the number of buckets, because this will require the s
 </div>
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 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.hostlead"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.hostlead"></a>44.1.2. Host In The Rowkey Lead Position</h4>
+<h4 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.hostlead"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.hostlead"></a>45.1.2. Host In The Rowkey Lead Position</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The rowkey <code>[hostname][log-event][timestamp]</code> is a candidate if there is a large-ish number of hosts to spread the writes and reads across the keyspace.
 This approach would be useful if scanning by hostname was a priority.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.revts"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.revts"></a>44.1.3. Timestamp, or Reverse Timestamp?</h4>
+<h4 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.revts"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.revts"></a>45.1.3. Timestamp, or Reverse Timestamp?</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>If the most important access path is to pull most recent events, then storing the timestamps as reverse-timestamps (e.g., <code>timestamp = Long.MAX_VALUE – timestamp</code>) will create the property of being able to do a Scan on <code>[hostname][log-event]</code> to obtain the most recently captured events.</p>
 </div>
@@ -9791,7 +9812,7 @@ See <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Sca
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.varkeys"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.varkeys"></a>44.1.4. Variable Length or Fixed Length Rowkeys?</h4>
+<h4 id="schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.varkeys"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_timeseries.varkeys"></a>45.1.4. Variable Length or Fixed Length Rowkeys?</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>It is critical to remember that rowkeys are stamped on every column in HBase.
 If the hostname is <code>a</code> and the event type is <code>e1</code> then the resulting rowkey would be quite small.
@@ -9861,7 +9882,7 @@ by using an <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/cl
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="schema.casestudies.log_steroids"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_steroids"></a>44.2. Case Study - Log Data and Timeseries Data on Steroids</h3>
+<h3 id="schema.casestudies.log_steroids"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.log_steroids"></a>45.2. Case Study - Log Data and Timeseries Data on Steroids</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>This effectively is the OpenTSDB approach.
 What OpenTSDB does is re-write data and pack rows into columns for certain time-periods.
@@ -9892,7 +9913,7 @@ from HBaseCon2012.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="schema.casestudies.custorder"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.custorder"></a>44.3. Case Study - Customer/Order</h3>
+<h3 id="schema.casestudies.custorder"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.custorder"></a>45.3. Case Study - Customer/Order</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Assume that HBase is used to store customer and order information.
 There are two core record-types being ingested: a Customer record type, and Order record type.</p>
@@ -9978,7 +9999,7 @@ What is the keyspace of the customer number, and what is the format (e.g., numer
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="schema.casestudies.custorder.tables"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.custorder.tables"></a>44.3.1. Single Table? Multiple Tables?</h4>
+<h4 id="schema.casestudies.custorder.tables"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.custorder.tables"></a>45.3.1. Single Table? Multiple Tables?</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>A traditional design approach would have separate tables for CUSTOMER and SALES.
 Another option is to pack multiple record types into a single table (e.g., CUSTOMER++).</p>
@@ -10017,7 +10038,7 @@ Another option is to pack multiple record types into a single table (e.g., CUSTO
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="schema.casestudies.custorder.obj"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.custorder.obj"></a>44.3.2. Order Object Design</h4>
+<h4 id="schema.casestudies.custorder.obj"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.casestudies.custorder.obj"></a>45.3.2. Order Object Design</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Now we need to address how to model the Order object.
 Assume that the class structure is as follows:</p>
@@ -10223,13 +10244,13 @@ Care should be taken with this approach to ensure backward compatibility in case
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="schema.smackdown"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.smackdown"></a>44.4. Case Study - "Tall/Wide/Middle" Schema Design Smackdown</h3>
+<h3 id="schema.smackdown"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.smackdown"></a>45.4. Case Study - "Tall/Wide/Middle" Schema Design Smackdown</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>This section will describe additional schema design questions that appear on the dist-list, specifically about tall and wide tables.
 These are general guidelines and not laws - each application must consider its own needs.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="schema.smackdown.rowsversions"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.smackdown.rowsversions"></a>44.4.1. Rows vs. Versions</h4>
+<h4 id="schema.smackdown.rowsversions"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.smackdown.rowsversions"></a>45.4.1. Rows vs. Versions</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>A common question is whether one should prefer rows or HBase&#8217;s built-in-versioning.
 The context is typically where there are "a lot" of versions of a row to be retained (e.g., where it is significantly above the HBase default of 1 max versions). The rows-approach would require storing a timestamp in some portion of the rowkey so that they would not overwrite with each successive update.</p>
@@ -10239,7 +10260,7 @@ The context is typically where there are "a lot" of versions of a row to be reta
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="schema.smackdown.rowscols"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.smackdown.rowscols"></a>44.4.2. Rows vs. Columns</h4>
+<h4 id="schema.smackdown.rowscols"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.smackdown.rowscols"></a>45.4.2. Rows vs. Columns</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Another common question is whether one should prefer rows or columns.
 The context is typically in extreme cases of wide tables, such as having 1 row with 1 million attributes, or 1 million rows with 1 columns apiece.</p>
@@ -10250,7 +10271,7 @@ But there is also a middle path between these two options, and that is "Rows as
 </div>
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 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="schema.smackdown.rowsascols"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.smackdown.rowsascols"></a>44.4.3. Rows as Columns</h4>
+<h4 id="schema.smackdown.rowsascols"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.smackdown.rowsascols"></a>45.4.3. Rows as Columns</h4>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The middle path between Rows vs.
 Columns is packing data that would be a separate row into columns, for certain rows.
@@ -10261,7 +10282,7 @@ For an overview of this approach, see <a href="#schema.casestudies.log_steroids"
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="casestudies.schema.listdata"><a class="anchor" href="#casestudies.schema.listdata"></a>44.5. Case Study - List Data</h3>
+<h3 id="casestudies.schema.listdata"><a class="anchor" href="#casestudies.schema.listdata"></a>45.5. Case Study - List Data</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The following is an exchange from the user dist-list regarding a fairly common question: how to handle per-user list data in Apache HBase.</p>
 </div>
@@ -10376,10 +10397,10 @@ If you don&#8217;t have time to build it both ways and compare, my advice would
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="schema.ops"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.ops"></a>45. Operational and Performance Configuration Options</h2>
+<h2 id="schema.ops"><a class="anchor" href="#schema.ops"></a>46. Operational and Performance Configuration Options</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_tune_hbase_server_rpc_handling"><a class="anchor" href="#_tune_hbase_server_rpc_handling"></a>45.1. Tune HBase Server RPC Handling</h3>
+<h3 id="_tune_hbase_server_rpc_handling"><a class="anchor" href="#_tune_hbase_server_rpc_handling"></a>46.1. Tune HBase Server RPC Handling</h3>
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 <ul>
 <li>
@@ -10437,7 +10458,7 @@ If you don&#8217;t have time to build it both ways and compare, my advice would
 </div>
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 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_disable_nagle_for_rpc"><a class="anchor" href="#_disable_nagle_for_rpc"></a>45.2. Disable Nagle for RPC</h3>
+<h3 id="_disable_nagle_for_rpc"><a class="anchor" href="#_disable_nagle_for_rpc"></a>46.2. Disable Nagle for RPC</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Disable Nagle’s algorithm. Delayed ACKs can add up to ~200ms to RPC round trip time. Set the following parameters:</p>
 </div>
@@ -10473,7 +10494,7 @@ If you don&#8217;t have time to build it both ways and compare, my advice would
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_limit_server_failure_impact"><a class="anchor" href="#_limit_server_failure_impact"></a>45.3. Limit Server Failure Impact</h3>
+<h3 id="_limit_server_failure_impact"><a class="anchor" href="#_limit_server_failure_impact"></a>46.3. Limit Server Failure Impact</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Detect regionserver failure as fast as reasonable. Set the following parameters:</p>
 </div>
@@ -10499,7 +10520,7 @@ If you don&#8217;t have time to build it both ways and compare, my advice would
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="shortcircuit.reads"><a class="anchor" href="#shortcircuit.reads"></a>45.4. Optimize on the Server Side for Low Latency</h3>
+<h3 id="shortcircuit.reads"><a class="anchor" href="#shortcircuit.reads"></a>46.4. Optimize on the Server Side for Low Latency</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Skip the network for local blocks when the RegionServer goes to read from HDFS by exploiting HDFS&#8217;s
 <a href="https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/ShortCircuitLocalReads.html">Short-Circuit Local Reads</a> facility.
@@ -10568,9 +10589,9 @@ interesting read showing the HDFS community at its best (caveat a few comments).
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_jvm_tuning"><a class="anchor" href="#_jvm_tuning"></a>45.5. JVM Tuning</h3>
+<h3 id="_jvm_tuning"><a class="anchor" href="#_jvm_tuning"></a>46.5. JVM Tuning</h3>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_tune_jvm_gc_for_low_collection_latencies"><a class="anchor" href="#_tune_jvm_gc_for_low_collection_latencies"></a>45.5.1. Tune JVM GC for low collection latencies</h4>
+<h4 id="_tune_jvm_gc_for_low_collection_latencies"><a class="anchor" href="#_tune_jvm_gc_for_low_collection_latencies"></a>46.5.1. Tune JVM GC for low collection latencies</h4>
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 <ul>
 <li>
@@ -10603,7 +10624,7 @@ interesting read showing the HDFS community at its best (caveat a few comments).
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect3">
-<h4 id="_os_level_tuning"><a class="anchor" href="#_os_level_tuning"></a>45.5.2. OS-Level Tuning</h4>
+<h4 id="_os_level_tuning"><a class="anchor" href="#_os_level_tuning"></a>46.5.2. OS-Level Tuning</h4>
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@@ -10631,10 +10652,10 @@ echo never &gt; /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag</pre>
 </div>
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 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_special_cases"><a class="anchor" href="#_special_cases"></a>46. Special Cases</h2>
+<h2 id="_special_cases"><a class="anchor" href="#_special_cases"></a>47. Special Cases</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_for_applications_where_failing_quickly_is_better_than_waiting"><a class="anchor" href="#_for_applications_where_failing_quickly_is_better_than_waiting"></a>46.1. For applications where failing quickly is better than waiting</h3>
+<h3 id="_for_applications_where_failing_quickly_is_better_than_waiting"><a class="anchor" href="#_for_applications_where_failing_quickly_is_better_than_waiting"></a>47.1. For applications where failing quickly is better than waiting</h3>
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@@ -10663,7 +10684,7 @@ echo never &gt; /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag</pre>
 </div>
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 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_for_applications_that_can_tolerate_slightly_out_of_date_information"><a class="anchor" href="#_for_applications_that_can_tolerate_slightly_out_of_date_information"></a>46.2. For applications that can tolerate slightly out of date information</h3>
+<h3 id="_for_applications_that_can_tolerate_slightly_out_of_date_information"><a class="anchor" href="#_for_applications_that_can_tolerate_slightly_out_of_date_information"></a>47.2. For applications that can tolerate slightly out of date information</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p><strong>HBase timeline consistency (HBASE-10070) </strong>
 With read replicas enabled, read-only copies of regions (replicas) are distributed over the cluster. One RegionServer services the default or primary replica, which is the only replica that can service writes. Other RegionServers serve the secondary replicas, follow the primary RegionServer, and only see committed updates. The secondary replicas are read-only, but can serve reads immediately while the primary is failing over, cutting read availability blips from seconds to milliseconds. Phoenix supports timeline consistency as of 4.4.0
@@ -10694,7 +10715,7 @@ Tips:</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="_more_information"><a class="anchor" href="#_more_information"></a>46.3. More Information</h3>
+<h3 id="_more_information"><a class="anchor" href="#_more_information"></a>47.3. More Information</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>See the Performance section <a href="#perf.schema">perf.schema</a> for more information about operational and performance schema design options, such as Bloom Filters, Table-configured regionsizes, compression, and blocksizes.</p>
 </div>
@@ -10740,7 +10761,7 @@ In the notes below, we refer to <em>o.a.h.h.mapreduce</em> but replace with
 </div>
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 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="hbase.mapreduce.classpath"><a class="anchor" href="#hbase.mapreduce.classpath"></a>47. HBase, MapReduce, and the CLASSPATH</h2>
+<h2 id="hbase.mapreduce.classpath"><a class="anchor" href="#hbase.mapreduce.classpath"></a>48. HBase, MapReduce, and the CLASSPATH</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>By default, MapReduce jobs deployed to a MapReduce cluster do not have access to
@@ -10941,7 +10962,7 @@ $ HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$(hbase classpath) hadoop jar MyJob.jar MyJobMainClass</code>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_mapreduce_scan_caching"><a class="anchor" href="#_mapreduce_scan_caching"></a>48. MapReduce Scan Caching</h2>
+<h2 id="_mapreduce_scan_caching"><a class="anchor" href="#_mapreduce_scan_caching"></a>49. MapReduce Scan Caching</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>TableMapReduceUtil now restores the option to set scanner caching (the number of rows which are cached before returning the result to the client) on the Scan object that is passed in.
@@ -10976,7 +10997,7 @@ If you think of the scan as a shovel, a bigger cache setting is analogous to a b
 </div>
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 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_bundled_hbase_mapreduce_jobs"><a class="anchor" href="#_bundled_hbase_mapreduce_jobs"></a>49. Bundled HBase MapReduce Jobs</h2>
+<h2 id="_bundled_hbase_mapreduce_jobs"><a class="anchor" href="#_bundled_hbase_mapreduce_jobs"></a>50. Bundled HBase MapReduce Jobs</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The HBase JAR also serves as a Driver for some bundled MapReduce jobs.
@@ -11007,7 +11028,7 @@ To run one of the jobs, model your command after the following example.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_hbase_as_a_mapreduce_job_data_source_and_data_sink"><a class="anchor" href="#_hbase_as_a_mapreduce_job_data_source_and_data_sink"></a>50. HBase as a MapReduce Job Data Source and Data Sink</h2>
+<h2 id="_hbase_as_a_mapreduce_job_data_source_and_data_sink"><a class="anchor" href="#_hbase_as_a_mapreduce_job_data_source_and_data_sink"></a>51. HBase as a MapReduce Job Data Source and Data Sink</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>HBase can be used as a data source, <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableInputFormat.html">TableInputFormat</a>, and data sink, <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableOutputFormat.html">TableOutputFormat</a> or <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/MultiTableOutputFormat.html">MultiTableOutputFormat</a>, for MapReduce jobs.
@@ -11036,7 +11057,7 @@ Otherwise use the default partitioner.</p>
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 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_writing_hfiles_directly_during_bulk_import"><a class="anchor" href="#_writing_hfiles_directly_during_bulk_import"></a>51. Writing HFiles Directly During Bulk Import</h2>
+<h2 id="_writing_hfiles_directly_during_bulk_import"><a class="anchor" href="#_writing_hfiles_directly_during_bulk_import"></a>52. Writing HFiles Directly During Bulk Import</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>If you are importing into a new table, you can bypass the HBase API and write your content directly to the filesystem, formatted into HBase data files (HFiles). Your import will run faster, perhaps an order of magnitude faster.
@@ -11045,7 +11066,7 @@ For more on how this mechanism works, see <a href="#arch.bulk.load">Bulk Loading
 </div>
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 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="_rowcounter_example"><a class="anchor" href="#_rowcounter_example"></a>52. RowCounter Example</h2>
+<h2 id="_rowcounter_example"><a class="anchor" href="#_rowcounter_example"></a>53. RowCounter Example</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>The included <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/RowCounter.html">RowCounter</a> MapReduce job uses <code>TableInputFormat</code> and does a count of all rows in the specified table.
@@ -11066,17 +11087,17 @@ If you have classpath errors, see <a href="#hbase.mapreduce.classpath">HBase, Ma
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
-<h2 id="splitter"><a class="anchor" href="#splitter"></a>53. Map-Task Splitting</h2>
+<h2 id="splitter"><a class="anchor" href="#splitter"></a>54. Map-Task Splitting</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="sect2">
-<h3 id="splitter.default"><a class="anchor" href="#splitter.default"></a>53.1. The Default HBase MapReduce Splitter</h3>
+<h3 id="splitter.default"><a class="anchor" href="#splitter.default"></a>54.1. The Default HBase MapReduce Splitter</h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>When <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableInputFormat.html">TableInputFormat</a> is used to source an HBase table in a MapReduce job, its splitter will make a map task for each region of the table.
 Thus, if there are 100 regions in the table, there will be 100 map-tasks for the job - regardless of how many column families are selected in the Scan.</p>
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-<h3 id="splitter.custom"><a class="anchor" href="#splitter.custom"></a>53.2. Custom Splitters</h3>
+<h3 id="splitter.custom"><a class="anchor" href="#splitter.custom"></a>54.2. Custom Splitters</h3>
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 <p>For those interested in implementing custom splitters, see the method <code>getSplits</code> in <a href="https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableInputFormatBase.html">TableInputFormatBase</a>.
 That is where the logic for map-task assignment resides.</p>
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