Re: Evenly splitting the table

[Asaf Mesika <as...@gmail.com>]

Is the number of salt keys configurable?
Do you support range scan on row keys althought hash is used?

On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Aaron Kimball wrote:

> Hi Cole,
>
> How are your keys structured? In Kiji, we default to using hashed row keys
> where each key starts with two bytes of salt. This makes it a lot easier to
> pre-split the table since you can make stronger guarantees about the key
> distribution.
>
> If your keys are "raw" text like, say, plaintext email addresses, it is
> significantly more difficult to guess the right splits a priori.
>
> cheers,
> - Aaron
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhihong@gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Take a look at TestAdmin#testCreateTableRPCTimeOut() where
> > hbaseadmin.createTable() is called.
> >
> > bq. Is there a way to go about splitting the entire table without having
> > specific start and end keys?
> >
> > I don't think so.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Cole <cole.skoviak@cerner.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering how I can go about evenly splitting an entire table in
> > > HBase during table creation[1]. I tried providing the empty byte arrays
> > > HConstants.EMPTY_START_ROW and HConstants.EMPTY_END_ROW
> > > as parameters to the method I linked below, and got an error: "Start
> > > key must be smaller than end key". Is there a way to go about splitting
> > > the entire table without having specific start and end keys? Thanks in
> > > advance.
> > >
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.html
> > > #createTable(org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor, byte[], byte[],
> > int)
> > >
> > >
> >
>