This is from the HBAse architecture page about region splits: "When a compaction is triggered in a child, the data from the parent is copied to the child. When both children have performed a compaction, the parent region is garbage collected. "
What happens during a region split when major compactions are disabled? Also, the decision to split a region is based on the combined size of Hfiles in a store.. I am worried about incremental loads then. Will this lead to Hbase performing splits before any compaction happens? This can unnecessarily lead to a larger number of regions. Is it advisable then to turn compactions on during bulk incremental loads? Thank you Vidhya
