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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:34:35 +0530
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Subject: Re: table version question
From: Akash Ashok <thehellmaker@gmail.com>
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Would help if you could keep the column family names and the qualifier names
as small as possible. This helps in the reduction of storage space.

Cheers,
Akash A

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Stack <stack@duboce.net> wrote:

> You could also enable compression.
> St.Ack
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Rita <rmorgan466@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I understand by default hbase creates 3 versions of a table. This is
> taking
> > up more space than anticipated therefore I was wondering if I default to
> 1
> > version are there any drawbacks?
> >
> >
> > --
> > --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
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