re: "with lackluster performance for random reads" You want to be on CDH3u3 for sure if you want to boost random read performance.
On 5/2/12 5:29 PM, "Paul Mackles" <pmack...@adobe.com> wrote: >I think the answer to this is "no", but I am hoping someone with more >experience can confirm thisÅ we are on hbase 0.90.4 (from cdh3u2). Some >of our storefiles have grown into the 3-4GB range (we have 100GB max >region size). Ignoring compactions, do large storefiles like this have a >negative impact on random reads? We only recently started doing a large >number of random gets so I have no history to go on in terms of >correlating storefile size with lackluster performance for random reads. > >Thanks, >Paul