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Edward Bortnikov commented on HBASE-14918:
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Let's focus the discussion on HBASE-14617, that is the right context.
> In-Memory MemStore Flush and Compaction
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> Key: HBASE-14918
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14918
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Umbrella
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Eshcar Hillel
> Assignee: Eshcar Hillel
> Attachments: CellBlocksSegmentDesign.pdf,
> HBASE-16417-benchmarkresults.pdf, MSLABMove.patch
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> A memstore serves as the in-memory component of a store unit, absorbing all
> updates to the store. From time to time these updates are flushed to a file
> on disk, where they are compacted (by eliminating redundancies) and
> compressed (i.e., written in a compressed format to reduce their storage
> size).
> We aim to speed up data access, and therefore suggest to apply in-memory
> memstore flush. That is to flush the active in-memory segment into an
> intermediate buffer where it can be accessed by the application. Data in the
> buffer is subject to compaction and can be stored in any format that allows
> it to take up smaller space in RAM. The less space the buffer consumes the
> longer it can reside in memory before data is flushed to disk, resulting in
> better performance.
> Specifically, the optimization is beneficial for workloads with
> medium-to-high key churn which incur many redundant cells, like persistent
> messaging.
> We suggest to structure the solution as 4 subtasks (respectively, patches).
> (1) Infrastructure - refactoring of the MemStore hierarchy, introducing
> segment (StoreSegment) as first-class citizen, and decoupling memstore
> scanner from the memstore implementation;
> (2) Adding StoreServices facility at the region level to allow memstores
> update region counters and access region level synchronization mechanism;
> (3) Implementation of a new memstore (CompactingMemstore) with non-optimized
> immutable segment representation, and
> (4) Memory optimization including compressed format representation and off
> heap allocations.
> This Jira continues the discussion in HBASE-13408.
> Design documents, evaluation results and previous patches can be found in
> HBASE-13408.
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