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Hadoop Essentials
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Hadoop Essentials

by Shiva Achari
April 2015
Beginner to intermediate
194 pages
4h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Splitting

As we discussed about the file and data management in HBase, along with compaction, Splitting Regions also is an important process. The best performance in HBase is achieved when the data is distributed evenly across the Regions and RegionServers which can be achieved by Splitting the Region optimally. When a table is first created with default options, only one Region is allocated to the table as HBase will not have sufficient information to allocate the appropriate number of Regions. We have three types of Splitting triggers which are Pre-Splitting, Auto Splitting, and Forced Splitting.

Pre-Splitting

To aid the splitting of a Region while creating a table, we can use Pre-Splitting to let HBase know initially the number of Regions to ...

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