[jira] Commented: (HBASE-2007) handle overly large column family in one row

["Andrew Purtell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-2007:
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Right, this issue was about maybe preventing people from doing dumb things like that which can bring down a RS, putting a gate down when overlimit. But I see this as something minor, good to have.



> handle overly large column family in one row
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-2007
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2007
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
>
> From a team in TM:
> {quote}
> I tried to create the large column in one row and one family. The value of each column has only 10 bytes. When I created the 804226850th column, the region server was crashed. I find that all columns of one row and one family will in the same region. The region server will crash, because this region is too large. And then I want to reboot HBase, after several minutes, the region servers will crash one by one.
> If one row and one family cannot split, then no matter how many machines are in HBase system, the capacity of HBase will be limited by one machine. I want to know whether this problem is a bug. If the column quantity in one row and one family is limited, can you tell me the safe range? 
> {quote}
> Currently a row cannot be split. So an individual row can expand only to some finite limit constrained by the region server capability. 
> I am impressed that a row was able to successfully contain 804,226,849 columns. 
> The HBase storage capability goals are currently "billions of rows, millions of columns, thousands of tables". A test involving hundreds of millions of columns is very challenging. 
> Most important, HBase should not accept input beyond some limit which produces a cascading failure. 
> I think we also do want to have the architectural discussion about rows that must span region servers due to immensity. 

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