Hi there- You probably want to read this...
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#performance As you've already noticed, going with regions smaller than the default isn't a good idea for large/large-ish tables. On 7/14/11 2:49 PM, "Mayuresh" <mayuresh.kshirsa...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >We have a hbase + hadoop setup that we have. Its 10 machines cluster. > >In my earlier tests we had the default region size (256M) and the >insertion >of 10,000,000 rows into hbase table took around 23 minutes. For the new >tests, I changed the region size to 128 M. Now the insertions are going >extremely slow. Infact its been a couple of hours now and the insertions >have still not completed yet. Any idea how I can improve the performance? >Is >there any configuration setting that I am missing? > >Thanks, >Mayuresh
