Should be set to true. If tcpnodelay is set to true, Nagle's is disabled. -- Lars
________________________________ From: Varun Sharma <va...@pinterest.com> To: user@hbase.apache.org; lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 12:11 AM Subject: Re: Get on a row with multiple columns Okay I did my research - these need to be set to false. I agree. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Varun Sharma <va...@pinterest.com> wrote: I have ipc.client.tcpnodelay, ipc.server.tcpnodelay set to false and the hbase one - [hbase].ipc.client.tcpnodelay set to true. Do these induce network latency ? > > >On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:57 PM, lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> wrote: > >Sorry.. I meant set these two config parameters to true (not false as I state >below). >> >> >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> >>To: "user@hbase.apache.org" <user@hbase.apache.org> >>Cc: >>Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 11:41 PM >>Subject: Re: Get on a row with multiple columns >> >>Only somewhat related. Seeing the magic 40ms random read time there. Did you >>disable Nagle's? >>(set hbase.ipc.client.tcpnodelay and ipc.server.tcpnodelay to false in >>hbase-site.xml). >> >>________________________________ >>From: Varun Sharma <va...@pinterest.com> >>To: user@hbase.apache.org; lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> >>Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 10:45 PM >>Subject: Re: Get on a row with multiple columns >> >>The use case is like your twitter feed. Tweets from people u follow. When >>someone unfollows, you need to delete a bunch of his tweets from the >>following feed. So, its frequent, and we are essentially running into some >>extreme corner cases like the one above. We need high write throughput for >>this, since when someone tweets, we need to fanout the tweet to all the >>followers. We need the ability to do fast deletes (unfollow) and fast adds >>(follow) and also be able to do fast random gets - when a real user loads >>the feed. I doubt we will able to play much with the schema here since we >>need to support a bunch of use cases. >> >>@lars: It does not take 30 seconds to place 300 delete markers. It takes 30 >>seconds to first find which of those 300 pins are in the set of columns >>present - this invokes 300 gets and then place the appropriate delete >>markers. Note that we can have tens of thousands of columns in a single row >>so a single get is not cheap. >> >>If we were to just place delete markers, that is very fast. But when >>started doing that, our random read performance suffered because of too >>many delete markers. The 90th percentile on random reads shot up from 40 >>milliseconds to 150 milliseconds, which is not acceptable for our usecase. >> >>Thanks >>Varun >> >>On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:33 PM, lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Can you organize your columns and then delete by column family? >>> >>> deleteColumn without specifying a TS is expensive, since HBase first has >>> to figure out what the latest TS is. >>> >>> Should be better in 0.94.1 or later since deletes are batched like Puts >>> (still need to retrieve the latest version, though). >>> >>> In 0.94.3 or later you can also the BulkDeleteEndPoint, which basically >>> let's specify a scan condition and then place specific delete marker for >>> all KVs encountered. >>> >>> >>> If you wanted to get really >>> fancy, you could hook up a coprocessor to the compaction process and >>> simply filter all KVs you no longer want (without ever placing any >>> delete markers). >>> >>> >>> Are you saying it takes 15 seconds to place 300 version delete markers?! >>> >>> >>> -- Lars >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Varun Sharma <va...@pinterest.com> >>> To: user@hbase.apache.org >>> Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 10:05 PM >>> Subject: Re: Get on a row with multiple columns >>> >>> We are given a set of 300 columns to delete. I tested two cases: >>> >>> 1) deleteColumns() - with the 's' >>> >>> This function simply adds delete markers for 300 columns, in our case, >>> typically only a fraction of these columns are actually present - 10. After >>> starting to use deleteColumns, we starting seeing a drop in cluster wide >>> random read performance - 90th percentile latency worsened, so did 99th >>> probably because of having to traverse delete markers. I attribute this to >>> profusion of delete markers in the cluster. Major compactions slowed down >>> by almost 50 percent probably because of having to clean out significantly >>> more delete markers. >>> >>> 2) deleteColumn() >>> >>> Ended up with untolerable 15 second calls, which clogged all the handlers. >>> Making the cluster pretty much unresponsive. >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > For the 300 column deletes, can you show us how the Delete(s) are >>> > constructed ? >>> > >>> > Do you use this method ? >>> > >>> > public Delete deleteColumns(byte [] family, byte [] qualifier) { >>> > Thanks >>> > >>> > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Varun Sharma <va...@pinterest.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > > So a Get call with multiple columns on a single row should be much >>> faster >>> > > than independent Get(s) on each of those columns for that row. I am >>> > > basically seeing severely poor performance (~ 15 seconds) for certain >>> > > deleteColumn() calls and I am seeing that there is a >>> > > prepareDeleteTimestamps() function in HRegion.java which first tries to >>> > > locate the column by doing individual gets on each column you want to >>> > > delete (I am doing 300 column deletes). Now, I think this should ideall >>> > by >>> > > 1 get call with the batch of 300 columns so that one scan can retrieve >>> > the >>> > > columns and the columns that are found, are indeed deleted. >>> > > >>> > > Before I try this fix, I wanted to get an opinion if it will make a >>> > > difference to batch the get() and it seems from your answer, it should. >>> > > >>> > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:34 PM, lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> > > >>> > > > Everything is stored as a KeyValue in HBase. >>> > > > The Key part of a KeyValue contains the row key, column family, >>> column >>> > > > name, and timestamp in that order. >>> > > > Each column family has it's own store and store files. >>> > > > >>> > > > So in a nutshell a get is executed by starting a scan at the row key >>> > > > (which is a prefix of the key) in each store (CF) and then scanning >>> > > forward >>> > > > in each store until the next row key is reached. (in reality it is a >>> > bit >>> > > > more complicated due to multiple versions, skipping columns, etc) >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > -- Lars >>> > > > ________________________________ >>> > > > From: Varun Sharma <va...@pinterest.com> >>> > > > To: user@hbase.apache.org >>> > > > Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 9:22 PM >>> > > > Subject: Re: Get on a row with multiple columns >>> > > > >>> > > > Sorry, I was a little unclear with my question. >>> > > > >>> > > > Lets say you have >>> > > > >>> > > > Get get = new Get(row) >>> > > > get.addColumn("1"); >>> > > > get.addColumn("2"); >>> > > > . >>> > > > . >>> > > > . >>> > > > >>> > > > When internally hbase executes the batch get, it will seek to column >>> > "1", >>> > > > now since data is lexicographically sorted, it does not need to seek >>> > from >>> > > > the beginning to get to "2", it can continue seeking, henceforth >>> since >>> > > > column "2" will always be after column "1". I want to know whether >>> this >>> > > is >>> > > > how a multicolumn get on a row works or not. >>> > > > >>> > > > Thanks >>> > > > Varun >>> > > > >>> > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Marcos Ortiz <mlor...@uci.cu> wrote: >>> > > > >>> > > > > Like Ishan said, a get give an instance of the Result class. >>> > > > > All utility methods that you can use are: >>> > > > > byte[] getValue(byte[] family, byte[] qualifier) >>> > > > > byte[] value() >>> > > > > byte[] getRow() >>> > > > > int size() >>> > > > > boolean isEmpty() >>> > > > > KeyValue[] raw() # Like Ishan said, all data here is sorted >>> > > > > List<KeyValue> list() >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > On 02/08/2013 11:29 PM, Ishan Chhabra wrote: >>> > > > > >>> > > > >> Based on what I read in Lars' book, a get will return a result a >>> > > Result, >>> > > > >> which is internally a KeyValue[]. This KeyValue[] is sorted by the >>> > key >>> > > > and >>> > > > >> you access this array using raw or list methods on the Result >>> > object. >>> > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>> > > > >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Varun Sharma <va...@pinterest.com >>> > >>> > > > wrote: >>> > > > >> >>> > > > >> +user >>> > > > >>> >>> > > > >>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Varun Sharma < >>> va...@pinterest.com> >>> > > > >>> wrote: >>> > > > >>> >>> > > > >>> Hi, >>> > > > >>>> >>> > > > >>>> When I do a Get on a row with multiple column qualifiers. Do we >>> > sort >>> > > > the >>> > > > >>>> column qualifers and make use of the sorted order when we get >>> the >>> > > > >>>> >>> > > > >>> results ? >>> > > > >>> >>> > > > >>>> Thanks >>> > > > >>>> Varun >>> > > > >>>> >>> > > > >>>> >>> > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>> > > > > -- >>> > > > > Marcos Ortiz Valmaseda, >>> > > > > Product Manager && Data Scientist at UCI >>> > > > > Blog: http://marcosluis2186.**posterous.com< >>> > > > http://marcosluis2186.posterous.com> >>> > > > > Twitter: @marcosluis2186 <http://twitter.com/**marcosluis2186< >>> > > > http://twitter.com/marcosluis2186> >>> > > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > >>> >> >> >