Thanks for the reply. In my use case, I have to retrieve a range of data usually by month and operate on them before reinserting them, so it would be nice if i could partition by month but then I don't know how would the partition affect the mapreduce job.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Buttler, David <buttl...@llnl.gov> wrote: > Not to my knowledge. Partitions are dynamically determined. As your table > grows, regions become too large and are split roughly in half. This > prevents unbalanced regions. Any predetermined partitioning will ultimately > fail because you don't know your data as well as you think you do. > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Weishung Chung [mailto:weish...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:14 AM > To: user@hbase.apache.org > Subject: customize partitioning of regionserver > > Does HBase have the capability to partition dataset by range like the MySQL > partitioning eg. partition the datetime, row key by month? > Thank you. >
