Jack, yes, this is very interesting to know your setup details. Could you please provide more information? Or we can take this off the list if you like…
Thank you! Sincerely, Leonid Fedotov On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Jack Levin wrote: > We stored about 1 billion images into hbase with file size up to 10MB. > Its been running for close to 2 years without issues and serves > delivery of images for Yfrog and ImageShack. If you have any > questions about the setup, I would be glad to answer them. > > -Jack > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have done extensive testing and have found that blobs don't belong in the >> databases but are rather best left out on the file system. Andrew outlined >> issues that you'll face and not to mention IO issues when compaction occurs >> over large files. >> >> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> I meant this to say "a few really large values" >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Consider if the split threshold is 2 GB but your one row contains 10 GB >>> as >>>> really large value. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> >>> - Andy >>> >>> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein >>> (via Tom White) >>>
