Re: Need guidance on Custom Compaction Policy

2017-03-22 Thread jeff saremi
@Ted No i had not looked at DateTiered. I will. Thanks @Vladimir I will look at the example code you gave me. thanks From: Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 2:12:00 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Need guidance on

Re: Need guidance on Custom Compaction Policy

2017-03-22 Thread Ted Yu
Have you taken look at http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.date.tiered ? Cheers On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:29 PM, jeff saremi wrote: > I mentioned some of this in another thread. We have a readonly database > which get bulk loaded using HFiles. > We want to keep only

Re: Need guidance on Custom Compaction Policy

2017-03-22 Thread Vladimir Rodionov
Older files will be purged by default HBase compactor if all data inside expired (you have TTL for data?) As for custom compaction policy you can refer to FIFOCompactionPolicy class to get the idea how custom compaction works. -Vlad On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:29 PM, jeff saremi

Need guidance on Custom Compaction Policy

2017-03-22 Thread jeff saremi
I mentioned some of this in another thread. We have a readonly database which get bulk loaded using HFiles. We want to keep only two versions/generations of data. Since the size of data is massive we need to delete the older generation. Since we write one single HBase for each region for each