Thanks Ted!

So with HBASE-10201 in place, would N sparsely populated CFs with the same
key structure ever be a better choice than a single densely populated CF
with the same key structure?

Thanks,
Otis
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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Please see HBASE-10201 which would come in 1.1.0 release.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Otis Gospodnetic <
> [email protected]
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently came across this good thread about 1 vs. N ColumnFamilies, the
> > max recommended number of CFs, dense vs. sparse structure, etc. --
> > http://search-hadoop.com/m/TozMw1jqh262
> >
> > This thread is from 2013. Even though people say HBase should handle more
> > than 3 CFs, the docs still recommend to stick to 2-3 CFs.  Is that still
> > the case?
> >
> > See http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#number.of.cfs
> >
> > Also, the thread talks about lumpy CFs and the fact that all CFs would
> have
> > to be flushed whenever any one of them triggers compaction..... but I
> > remember something being changed in this space a while back.  No?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Otis
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> >
>

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