Misty Stanley-Jones created HBASE-13052: -------------------------------------------
Summary: Explain each region split policy Key: HBASE-13052 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13052 Project: HBase Issue Type: Bug Components: documentation Reporter: Misty Stanley-Jones Assignee: Misty Stanley-Jones {quote} there are five region split policies today so that let's add a section which explains: 1. How each policies work. We can start from current java doc: http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/KeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.html http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.html http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/DisabledRegionSplitPolicy.html http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy.html http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy.html 2. How users can choose a good policy per their scenario basis 3. Pros and cons over each policies {quote} from [~daisuke.kobayashi] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)