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Yi Liang commented on HBASE-16894: ---------------------------------- [~mantonov] {quote}simple keyspace split as in hbase-18090 by first/end key would be sufficient for the most needs.{quote} Agreed. And I checked your code in HBASE-18090, your changes mainly go to TableSnapshotInputFormat, and this one is to change TableInputFormatBase. They are using same same idea, but we still need two jiras to handle them, they are not a duplicates. And I will first review your code. > Create more than 1 split per region, generalize HBASE-12590 > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-16894 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16894 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Enis Soztutar > Assignee: Yi Liang > Attachments: ImplementaionAndSomeQuestion.docx > > > A common request from users is to be able to better control how many map > tasks are created per region. Right now, it is always 1 region = 1 input > split = 1 map task. Same goes for Spark since it uses the TIF. With region > sizes as large as 50 GBs, it is desirable to be able to create more than 1 > split per region. > HBASE-12590 adds a config property for MR jobs to be able to handle skew in > region sizes. The algorithm is roughly: > {code} > If (region size >= average size*ratio) : cut the region into two MR input > splits > If (average size <= region size < average size*ratio) : one region as one MR > input split > If (sum of several continuous regions size < average size * ratio): combine > these regions into one MR input split. > {code} > Although we can set data skew ratio to be 0.5 or something to abuse > HBASE-12590 into creating more than 1 split task per region, it is not ideal. > But there is no way to create more with the patch as it is. For example we > cannot create more than 2 tasks per region. > If we want to fix this properly, we should extend the approach in > HBASE-12590, and make it so that the client can specify the desired num of > mappers, or desired split size, and the TIF generates the splits based on the > current region sizes very similar to the algorithm in HBASE-12590, but a more > generic way. This also would eliminate the hand tuning of data skew ratio. > We also can think about the guidepost approach that Phoenix has in the stats > table which is used for exactly this purpose. Right now, the region can be > split into powers of two assuming uniform distribution within the region. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)