On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Gurjeet Singh <gurj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am I missing something ? Is there a way to optimize this ? >
You've checked out the perf section of the refguide? http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#performance And have you read the postings by the GBIF lads starting with this one: http://gbif.blogspot.ie/2012/02/performance-evaluation-of-hbase.html The boys have done a few blog postings on what they did to get HBase scans working fast enough for their needs. Its good reading because they tell it like a detective story figuring where the frictions were and how they measured it and then undid them, one by one. > I guess a general question I have is whether HBase is good datastore > for storing many medium sized (~50GB), dense datasets with lots of > columns when a lot of the queries require full table scans ? > Yes. St.Ack
