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Jonathan Hsieh commented on HBASE-11985: ---------------------------------------- Pending mob work is targeted for 100k-10mb range. tbd to see if it is makes sens for 10mb-64mb. (if you have a few it would be ok, but if you have a lot). A large number of *column families* probably means you are doing it wrong. > Document sizing rules of thumb > ------------------------------ > > 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 > > 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)