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Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:26:54 -0700
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Subject: Re: multi-data center support
From: Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcryans@apache.org>
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A single HBase instance doesn't work across datacenters, maybe that's
why you haven't found any documentation.

HBase does have replication between clusters, see
http://hbase.apache.org/replication.html

J-D

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Marco Villalobos
<mvillalobos@kineteque.com> wrote:
> I have not found any documentation on how hbase would work across
> multiple data-centers.
>
> In fact, I am concerned about how a centralized zookeeper would make
> multi-data center support impossible.
>
> How is this handled? =A0What if somebody needs to read and write from
> multiple data-centers?
>
> Any advice?