Yes, since 4.2.2. The number of regions is controlled by the phoenix.sequence.saltBuckets property (only the first time SYSTEM.SEQUENCE is created):
Here are a couple of mailing list threads where this was discussed before (there are quite a few others too): http://search-hadoop.com/m/9UY0h2XEa5e1WTdx2/sequence&subj=Re+how+to+drop+SYSTEM+SEQUENCE+table+to+reduce+the+no+of+salt+buckets+for+this+table http://search-hadoop.com/m/9UY0h29HRFP1zi3Z31/sequence&subj=Re+Connection+taking+longer+time+after+upgrading+to+apache+phoenix+4+3+1 On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > I built 4.5.0-HBase-0.98-SNAPSHOT from the head of branch 4.x-HBase-0.98 > today and saw that when I started up sqlline Phoenix initialized > SYSTEM.SEQUENCE with 256 regions. Is that intended? I was really surprised > and that's a lot of regions for a single node all-localhost cluster. > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) >