Watch out when pre-splitting. Your key distribution may not be as uniform as you might think. This particularly happens when keys are represented in some printable form. Base 64, for instance only populates a small fraction of the base 256 key space.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org>wrote: > - Inserting into a new table without pre-splitting it is bound to be a > red herring of bad performance. Please pre-split it with methods such > as > http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.html#createTable(org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor > , > byte[][]) >
