Added note on index size

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Michael Stack 2011-05-25 21:23:20 +00:00
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</section>
<section xml:id="keysize">
<title>Try to minimize row and column sizes</title>
<subtitle>Or why are my storefile indices large?</subtitle>
<para>In HBase, values are always freighted with their coordinates; as a
cell value passes through the system, it'll be accompanied by its
row, column name, and timestamp. Always. If your rows and column names
are large, especially compared o the size of the cell value, then
are large, especially compared to the size of the cell value, then
you may run up against some interesting scenarios. One such is
the case described by Marc Limotte at the tail of
<link xlink:url="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3551?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&amp;focusedCommentId=13005272#comment-13005272">HBASE-3551</link>
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entries in the store file index happen at a larger interval or
modify the table schema so it makes for smaller rows and column
names.
Compression will also make for larger indices. See
the thread <link xref:href="http://search-hadoop.com/m/hemBv1LiN4Q1/a+question+storefileIndexSize&amp;subj=a+question+storefileIndexSize">a question storefileIndexSize</link>
up on the user mailing list.
`</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="schema.versions">