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Kahlil Oppenheimer commented on HBASE-17707:
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Just updated the release notes. Do these look good to you [~tedyu]?
> New More Accurate Table Skew cost function/generator
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>
> Key: HBASE-17707
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17707
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Balancer
> Affects Versions: 1.2.0
> Environment: CentOS Derivative with a derivative of the 3.18.43
> kernel. HBase on CDH5.9.0 with some patches. HDFS CDH 5.9.0 with no patches.
> Reporter: Kahlil Oppenheimer
> Assignee: Kahlil Oppenheimer
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.0
>
> Attachments: HBASE-17707-00.patch, HBASE-17707-01.patch,
> HBASE-17707-02.patch, HBASE-17707-03.patch, HBASE-17707-04.patch
>
>
> This patch includes new version of the TableSkewCostFunction and a new
> TableSkewCandidateGenerator.
> The new TableSkewCostFunction computes table skew by counting the minimal
> number of region moves required for a given table to perfectly balance the
> table across the cluster (i.e. as if the regions from that table had been
> round-robin-ed across the cluster). This number of moves is computer for each
> table, then normalized to a score between 0-1 by dividing by the number of
> moves required in the absolute worst case (i.e. the entire table is stored on
> one server), and stored in an array. The cost function then takes a weighted
> average of the average and maximum value across all tables. The weights in
> this average are configurable to allow for certain users to more strongly
> penalize situations where one table is skewed versus where every table is a
> little bit skewed. To better spread this value more evenly across the range
> 0-1, we take the square root of the weighted average to get the final value.
> The new TableSkewCandidateGenerator generates region moves/swaps to optimize
> the above TableSkewCostFunction. It first simply tries to move regions until
> each server has the right number of regions, then it swaps regions around
> such that each region swap improves table skew across the cluster.
> We tested the cost function and generator in our production clusters with
> 100s of TBs of data and 100s of tables across dozens of servers and found
> both to be very performant and accurate.
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