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Subject: managing HConnection
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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 14:47:29 +0000
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Hi all,
I am using hbase-0.98.1-cdh5.1.4 client and I am a bit confused by the =
documentation of HConnection. The document says the following:

HConnection instances can be shared. Sharing is usually what you want =
because rather than each HConnection instance having to do its own =
discovery of regions out on the cluster, instead, all clients get to =
share the one cache of locations. HConnectionManager does the sharing =
for you if you go by it getting connections. Sharing makes cleanup of =
HConnections awkward. .

So now I have a simple question: Can I share the same HConnection =
instance in my entire application?
And write some magic code to know when to close or never close at all?
Or I have to create an instance and close it every time I do a CRUD =
operation ?

Many thanks


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