Re: How fast and safe online schema changes are?

2017-01-18 Thread Ted Yu
On a 5 node hbase 1.1.2 cluster, I created a table with 2000 regions. Then I issued the following command in shell: alter 'user', NAME => 'cf', VERSIONS => 5 Here was the output: http://pastebin.com/Ph06M8eX My cluster was not loaded. YMMV On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 2:04 AM, nh kim wrote: >

How fast and safe online schema changes are?

2017-01-17 Thread nh kim
Hi All, I’m planning to use HBase online schema changes, and going to ALTER TABLE, especially ADD COLUMNs, on Phoenix. Because my project handles quite a big dataset, I want to make sure HBase supports quick and smooth schema changes without disabling tables, just as general RDMBS supports column

How fast and safe online schema changes are?

2017-01-17 Thread nh kim
Hi All, I’m planning to use HBase online schema changes, and going to ALTER TABLE, especially ADD COLUMNs, on Phoenix. Because my project handles quite a big dataset, I want to make sure HBase supports quick and smooth schema changes without disabling tables, just as general RDMBS supports column