Hi Serega, Yes, some have done it already: http://www.slideshare.net/jacque74/hug-hbase-presentation however there are caveats to consider: compactions, splits, sizes of the regions, etc.
Currently there is work in progress in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11339 and that will help users to address this need to store medium size binary objects directly in HBase without the side effects of compactions and region splits. cheers, esteban. -- Cloudera, Inc. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Serega Sheypak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, we have 10^8 small jpg/png images each size is 20-100 Kb. They are > thumbs. > These images are used in many web-sites as static content. > Is it good Idea to place them to HBase and serve to users? > > right now all images are on SSD discs with complicated partitioning and > backup procedures. It becomes hard to maintain them because qtty and total > size of images grow. >
