I've been trying to understand how Hbase can provide good performance using HDFS when purpose of HDFS is sequential large block sizes which is inherently different than of Hbase where it's more random and row sizes might be very small.
I am reading this but doesn't answer my question. It does say that HFile block size is different but how it really works with HDFS is what I am trying to understand. http://www.larsgeorge.com/2009/10/hbase-architecture-101-storage.html
