For your last question, compaction wouldn't reduce the number of regions. Please take a look at HBASE-7403 for online merge.
Cheers On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Juraj jiv <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > i read in documentation that max region count per region server should be > around 200. I unfortunately have currently 800 regions for RS. > Those tables are not presplitted (all handled by hbase), does manual > spliting helps in this case? hdfs fodler /hbase/data currently hold around > 2.2TB of data and i have 4 region servers, is it enough or i need more RS? > > Also will Hbase compact these tables automatically to have less regions? > > Hbase version 0.96.1.1-cdh5.0.1 > Thanks for any guidance. > > JV
