I imported data into HBase in the fashion of bulk load, but after that I found many unexpected file were created in the HDFS directory of /user/root/, and they like these:
/user/root/partitions_fd74866b-6588-468d-8463-474e202db070 /user/root/partitions_fd867cd2-d9c9-48f5-9eec-185b2e57788d /user/root/partitions_fda37b8a-a882-4787-babc-8310a969f85c /user/root/partitions_fdaca2f4-2792-41f6-b7e8-61a8a5677dea /user/root/partitions_fdd55baa-3a12-493e-8844-a23ae83209c5 /user/root/partitions_fdd85a3c-9abe-45d4-a0c6-76d2bed88ea5 /user/root/partitions_fe133460-5f3f-4c6a-9fff-ff6c62410cc1 /user/root/partitions_fe29a2b0-b281-465f-8d4a-6044822d960a /user/root/partitions_fe2fa6fa-9066-484c-bc91-ec412e48d008 /user/root/partitions_fe31667b-2d5a-452e-baf7-a81982fe954a /user/root/partitions_fe3a5542-bc4d-4137-9d5e-1a0c59f72ac3 /user/root/partitions_fe6a9407-c27b-4a67-bb50-e6b9fd172bc9 /user/root/partitions_fe6f9294-f970-473c-8659-c08292c27ddd ... ... ... ... It seems that they are HFiles, but I don't know why the were created here? I bulk load data into HBase in the following way: Firstly, I wrote a MapReduce program which only has map tasks. The map tasks read some text data and emit them in the form of RowKey and KeyValue.The following is my program: @Override protected void map(NullWritable NULL, GtpcV1SignalWritable signal, Context ctx) throws InterruptedException, IOException { String strRowkey = xxx; byte[] rowkeyBytes = Bytes.toBytes(strRowkey); rowkey.set(rowkeyBytes); part1.init(signal); part2.init(signal); KeyValue kv = new KeyValue(rowkeyBytes, Family_A, Qualifier_Q, part1.serialize()); ctx.write(rowkey, kv); kv = new KeyValue(rowkeyBytes, Family_B, Qualifier_Q, part2.serialize()); ctx.write(rowkey, kv); } after the MR programs finished, there were several HFiles generated in the output directory I specified. Then I bean to load these HFiles into HBase using the following command: hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.LoadIncrementalHFiles HFiles-Dir MyTable Finally , I could see that the data were indeed loaded into the table in HBase. But, I could also see that there were many unexpected files generated in the HDFS directory of /user/root/, just as I have mentioned at the begining of this mail, and I did not specify any files to be produced in this directory. What happened ? Who can tell me what there files are and who produced them? Thanks