I'm not sure what you mean by "optimized cell size" or whether you're just asking about practical limits?
HBase is generally used with cells in the range of tens of bytes to hundreds of kilobytes. However, I have used it with cells that are several megabytes, up to about 50MB. Up at that level, I have seen some weird performance issues. The most important thing is to be sure to tweak all of your settings. If you have 20MB cells, you need to be sure to increase the flush size beyond 64MB and the split size beyond 256MB. You also need enough memory to support all this large object allocation. And of course, test test test. That's the easiest way to see if what you want to do will work :) When you run into problems, e-mail the list. As far as row size is concerned, the only issue is that a row can never span multiple regions so a given row can only be in one region and thus be hosted on one server at a time. JG > -----Original Message----- > From: William Kang [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 1:57 PM > To: hbase-user > Subject: Limits on HBase > > Hi folks, > I know this question may have been asked many times, but I am wondering > if > there is any update on the optimized cell size (in megabytes) and row > size > (in megabytes)? Many thanks. > > > William
