Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-hbase-user-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 49948 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2009 21:17:38 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 11 Nov 2009 21:17:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 79782 invoked by uid 500); 11 Nov 2009 21:17:37 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-hbase-user-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 79729 invoked by uid 500); 11 Nov 2009 21:17:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact hbase-user-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 79717 invoked by uid 99); 11 Nov 2009 21:17:37 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:37 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of tuxracer69@gmail.com designates 209.85.218.223 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.218.223] (HELO mail-bw0-f223.google.com) (209.85.218.223) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:27 +0000 Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so1514594bwz.29 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:17:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZNsO5vLGDueSHoj396Hw7XSeD5gsF/cczz4w51C4Glk=; b=o1g73FCjoBNItQili7MYLEc7mECUsPrZFL2ksADIDltaE9bhd2NRWhHECDlWXcK0Fj +Z8J2X+hlw7Zwmp4p3JsUqi7tiz/FcEWWJSzRzB+6h4fDpMCkbfkBC4BDy/j1p/rIrk/ xFHXhtZGTXdhj96rQhZFYB/uXGAaHX2ZhyfV4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gSQNEmAGSyACpabz2cnRPTitDCORBwx52N8pDLaFKwmlIrmG0B5jtNsc1Das6h4/uh w2nSTIan3XNO2C7L/+0uTvdX0UC0HLnd3qs7+6D5kgIHukV/6732mErkauRHok9CRlgF yGPzmqjd/89B0cW7T900NW81TAHdk5yIyDHXA= Received: by 10.204.36.202 with SMTP id u10mr2089441bkd.196.1257974227411; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:17:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.66? (78-86-128-147.zone2.bethere.co.uk [78.86.128.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e17sm252135fke.56.2009.11.11.13.17.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:17:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AFB29D1.7030501@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:05 +0000 From: TuxRacer69 User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: newbie question: what is better? one with a lot of keys OR a lot of tables with fewer keys? References: <4AFA9EEF.201@gmail.com> <31a243e70911110902r6b6ac67en71cdfcdb0bd0e87c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <31a243e70911110902r6b6ac67en71cdfcdb0bd0e87c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Thank you Jean-Daniel Jean-Daniel Cryans wrote: > Alex, > > In HBase it really makes more sense to put all the data you can in a > single table as it will be automatically partitioned and distributed > across the region servers (providing you have more than 256MB of > data). > > J-D >