bq. We cannot change the maxregionsize parameter The region size can be changed on per table basis:
hbase> alter 't1', MAX_FILESIZE => '134217728' See the beginning of hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands/alter.rb for more details. FYI On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Manish Maheshwari <mylogi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have a scenario where HBase is used like a Key Value Database to map > Keys to Regions. We have over 5 Million Keys, but the table size is less > than 7 GB. The read volume is pretty high - About 50x of the put/delete > volume. This causes hot spotting on the Data Node and the region is not > split. We cannot change the maxregionsize parameter as that will impact > other tables too. > > Our idea is to manually inspect the row key ranges and then split the > region manually and assign them to different region servers. We will > continue to then monitor the rows in one region to see if needs to be > split. > > Any experience of doing this on HBase. Is this a recommended approach? > > Thanks, > Manish >
