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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 14:46:55 -0500
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Subject: Re: Maximum number of regions for a table?
From: "Kevin O'dell" <kevin.odell@cloudera.com>
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Hi Kim,

  I would take a look at:

http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2013/01/hbase-region-server-memory-sizing.html


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Kim Chew <kchew534@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am wondering if there is a restrain on the number of regions that a table
> could have. For example, if I have a table that grows very fast so the
> region keeps splitting, is it possible that the table could have as many
> regions as it could until all the resource run out?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kim
>


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Kevin O'Dell
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