This does sound pretty slow. Using YCSB, I have seen insert rates of about 10,000 x 1kB records per second with two datanodes and one namenode using Hbase over HDFS. That isn't using thrift, though.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Eran Kutner <e...@gigya.com> wrote: > I started with a basic insert operation. Inserting rows with one > column with 1KB of data each. > Initially, when the table was empty I was getting around 300 inserts > per second with 50 writing threads. Then, when the region split and a > second server was added the rate suddenly jumped to 3000 inserts/sec > per server, so ~6000 for the two servers. Over time as more servers > were added the rate actually went down, and stabilized on around 2000 > inserts/sec per server. >
