On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Brad McCarty <mcca...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is hbase. You don't buy bigger hardware, you just add nodes (smile). > > > Not sure if that was tongue-in-cheek, because adding nodes wouldn't address > the hot row issue would it?? >
Yes. I was trying to do tongue-in-cheek but, yes, you are right, it would not address the hot row issue (I misread). What kind of request rate are you thinking would overwhelm serving a row from cache? St.Ack