Re: one column family but lots of tables

2013-08-24 Thread Koert Kuipers
From: Koert Kuipers ko...@tresata.com To: user@hbase.apache.org; vrodio...@carrieriq.com Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:30 PM Subject: Re: one column family but lots of tables if that is the case, how come people keep warning about limiting the number

Re: one column family but lots of tables

2013-08-24 Thread yonghu
sizes. -- Lars From: Koert Kuipers ko...@tresata.com To: user@hbase.apache.org; vrodio...@carrieriq.com Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:30 PM Subject: Re: one column family but lots of tables if that is the case, how come

Re: one column family but lots of tables

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Segel
with very lopsided distributions of HFile sizes. -- Lars From: Koert Kuipers ko...@tresata.com To: user@hbase.apache.org; vrodio...@carrieriq.com Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:30 PM Subject: Re: one column family but lots of tables

Re: one column family but lots of tables

2013-08-22 Thread Shahab Yunus
*do i understand it correctly that when i create lots of tables, but they all use the same column family (by name), that i am just using one column **family *and i am OK with respect to limiting number of column families ? I don't think so. Column families are per table. Even if the name of the

Re: one column family but lots of tables

2013-08-22 Thread Ted Yu
Roughly how many column families in total do you have ? Having many tables would make certain transactions impossible whereas putting related column families in the same table would allow. Cheers On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Koert Kuipers ko...@tresata.com wrote: i read in multiple

RE: one column family but lots of tables

2013-08-22 Thread Vladimir Rodionov
: vrodio...@carrieriq.com From: Koert Kuipers [ko...@tresata.com] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:06 AM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: one column family but lots of tables i read in multiple places that i should try to limit the number of column families

RE: one column family but lots of tables

2013-08-22 Thread Vladimir Rodionov
Carrier IQ, www.carrieriq.com e-mail: vrodio...@carrieriq.com From: Koert Kuipers [ko...@tresata.com] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:30 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org; Vladimir Rodionov Subject: Re: one column family but lots of tables if that is the case

Re: one column family but lots of tables

2013-08-22 Thread lars hofhansl
of data you end up with very lopsided distributions of HFile sizes. -- Lars From: Koert Kuipers ko...@tresata.com To: user@hbase.apache.org; vrodio...@carrieriq.com Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:30 PM Subject: Re: one column family but lots of tables