[jira] Commented: (HBASE-48) [hbase] Bulk load tools

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stack commented on HBASE-48:
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Two things.

1. Manish Shah points out that we need to ensure a total ordering of all keys (See pg.218 of hadoop book and on).  We need to supply a partitioner that does total ordering AND that ensures we don't partition across rows (Thanks for this Manish).

2. Current patch does not guarantee rows do not span storefiles.

> [hbase] Bulk load tools
> -----------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-48
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-48
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: stack
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: 48-v2.patch, 48-v3.patch, 48-v4.patch, 48.patch, loadtable.rb
>
>
> Hbase needs tools to facilitate bulk upload and possibly dumping.  Going via the current APIs, particularly if the dataset is large and cell content is small, uploads can take a long time even when using many concurrent clients.
> PNUTS folks talked of need for a different API to manage bulk upload/dump.
> Another notion would be to somehow have the bulk loader tools somehow write regions directly in hdfs.

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