Re: Question on upper bound of column qualifiers for a Row HBASE-0.98

[Jean-Marc Spaggiari <je...@spaggiari.org>]

Moving to the user mailing list, dev in BCC.

Hi Gaby,

There is none fixed limitation for the max number of column qualifiers
(CQ). But you have to keep in mind that HBase will not split within a row.
An entire row will always stay in a single region. Therefore, if you row
can become very big (few GB), it might be bigger than your default region
max size, and will not be able to split.

Here again, there is no limitation for the size. You can have a single
region being 40GB with a single row. But that's not recommended. Better to
have a good balance.

HPH

JM

2015-01-12 16:47 GMT-05:00 gabriela montiel <ga...@oracle.com>:

> Hello,
>
> We are working on HBase 0.98-CDH 5.2. We are creating a table where a row
> may contain a great amount of column qualifiers. Does it exists a limit on
> the number of column qualifiers a row may contain? Does the row have a
> limited size?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gaby
>