you may run into OOM when doing compaction.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Rahul Ravindran <rahu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to understand the downsides of having a large number of hfiles > by having a large hbase.hstore.compactionThreshold > > This delays major compaction. However, the amount of data that needs to > be read and re-written as a single hfile during major compaction will > remain the same unless we have large number of deletes or expired rows > > I understand the random reads will be affected since each hfile may be a > candidate for the row, but is there any other downside I am missing? > > > ~Rahul.
