Varun: Have you read the first section of https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12487932/hfile_format_v2_design_draft_0.4.odt ?
Please see this as well : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3857?focusedCommentId=13031489&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13031489 Cheers On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Varun Sharma <va...@pinterest.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am wondering why we have a tiered index in the HFile format. Is it > because the root index must fit in memory - hence must be limited in size. > Does the bound on the root index pretty much dictate the index tiers ? > > Thank > Varun >
