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From: Bharath Vissapragada <bharathv@cloudera.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:40:27 +0530
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Subject: Re: How to shrink HBase region size?
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Your subject seems to be different from your actual question. If you want
to reduce the number of regions, you can increase the
hbase.hregion.max.filesize and do region merge (offline merge suggested ,hbase
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Merge tbl_name region_1 region_2). You can
use compression to reduce per region size.


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Ramon Wang <ramon@appannie.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I'm wondering is there a simple way we can decrease the number of regions
> for a table? We are using HBase 0.94.6-cdh4.4.0, one of our table has more
> than 100 regions, following is some information of the table:
>
> SPLIT_POLICY =>
> 'org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy',
> MAX_FILESIZE => '21474836480',
>
> I hope i could increase MAX_FILESIZE to some bigger value before, but we
> already have data in that table, so any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Cheers
> Ramon
>


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