[jira] [Updated] (HBASE-11985) Document sizing rules of thumb

["Misty Stanley-Jones (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11985?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Misty Stanley-Jones updated HBASE-11985:
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    Attachment: HBASE-11985.patch

Ready for review

> Document sizing rules of thumb
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>                 Key: HBASE-11985
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11985
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: documentation
>            Reporter: Misty Stanley-Jones
>            Assignee: Misty Stanley-Jones
>         Attachments: HBASE-11985.patch
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> I'm looking for tuning/sizing rules of thumb to put in the Ref Guide.
> Info I have gleaned so far:
> A reasonable region size is between 10 GB and 50 GB.
> A reasonable maximum cell size is 1 MB to 10 MB. If your cells are larger than 10 MB, consider storing the cell contents in HDFS and storing a reference to the location in HBase. Pending MOB work for 10 MB - 64 MB window.
> When you size your regions and cells, keep in mind that a region cannot split across a row. If your row size is too large, or your region size is too small, you can end up with a single row per region, which is not a good pattern. It is also possible that one big column causes splits while other columns are tiny, and this may not be great.
> A large # of columns probably means you are doing it wrong.
> Column names need to be short because they get stored for every value (barring encoding). Don't need to be self-documenting like in RDBMS.



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