[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-763) Manage table sharding/partitioning within Accumulo

["Jim Klucar (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jim Klucar created ACCUMULO-763:
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             Summary: Manage table sharding/partitioning within Accumulo
                 Key: ACCUMULO-763
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-763
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Wish
    Affects Versions: 1.5.0
            Reporter: Jim Klucar
            Priority: Minor


When ingesting a lot of data into a single table, it is common to include a shard id in the row id to distribute the rows among the tservers.  This is so prevalent, I suggest that Accumulo handles table sharding internally. 

I'm not sure how this would be implemented exactly, but I'd like to start a discussion about the pros and cons of doing this. A lot of users have created private libraries to handle ingesting into a sharded table and querying a sharded table. It could be nice to have one supported robust solution for this that developers didn't have to worry about.  Perhaps it is an option when you create the table that it is a sharded table, splits are automatically created, and the tablets are automatically distributed among the tservers. Accumulo could also implement a nice consistent hashing technique that would allow more shards to be added with a minimum amount of work.


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