Take a look at this:
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/DesignOverview
then read the bigtable paper.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:39 PM, edward choi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to crawl thousands of news rss feeds via MapReduce, and save
> each news article into HBase directly.
>
> My concern is that Hadoop does not work well with a large number of
> small-size files,
>
> and if I insert every single news article (which is small-size apparently)
> into HBase, (without separately storing it into HDFS)
>
> I might end up with millions of files that are only several kilobytes in
> size.
>
> Or does HBase somehow automatically append each news article into a single
> file, so that it would have only a few files of large-size?
>
> Ed
>
