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Learning Hbase
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Learning Hbase

by Shashwat Shriparv
November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
326 pages
7h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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About the internal storage architecture of HBase

The following figure shows the principle algorithm and data structure HBase works on, that is, LSM-tree, and the way of merging, and precedes the explanation:

About the internal storage architecture of HBase

HBase stores file using LSM-tree, which maintains data in two separate parts that are optimized for underlying storage. This type of data structure depends on two structures, a current and smaller one in memory and a bigger one on the persistent disk, and once the part in memory becomes bigger than a certain limit, it is merged with the bigger structure that is stored on the disk using a merge sort algorithm and a new in-memory tree is created ...

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