HBASE-4172 laundry list of changes (book, configuration, developer, performance)
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search the mailling list for conversations on this topic. All rows in HBase conform to the <xref linkend="datamodel">datamodel</xref>, and
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that includes versioning. Take that into consideration when making your design, as well as block size for the ColumnFamily.
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</para>
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<section xml:id="counters">
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<title>Counters</title>
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<para>
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One supported datatype that deserves special mention are "counters" (i.e., the ability to do atomic increments of numbers). See
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<link xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.html#increment%28org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Increment%29">Increment</link> in HTable.
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</para>
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<para>Synchronization on counters are done on the RegionServer, not in the client.
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</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="cf.in.memory">
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<title>
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<link xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.html">HTable</link>
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is responsible for finding RegionServers that are serving the
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particular row range of interest. It does this by querying
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the <code>.META.</code> and <code>-ROOT</code> catalog tables
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the <code>.META.</code> and <code>-ROOT-</code> catalog tables
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(TODO: Explain). After locating the required
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region(s), the client <emphasis>directly</emphasis> contacts
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the RegionServer serving that region (i.e., it does not go
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For more information about how connections are handled in the HBase client,
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see <link xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.html">HConnectionManager</link>.
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</para>
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<section xml:id="client.connection.pooling"><title>Connection Pooling</title>
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<para>For applications which require high-end multithreaded access (e.g., web-servers or application servers that may serve many application threads
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in a single JVM), see <link xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTablePool.html">HTablePool</link>.
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</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="client.writebuffer"><title>WriteBuffer and Batch Methods</title>
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<para>If <xref linkend="perf.hbase.client.autoflush" /> is turned off on
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For a description of how a minor compaction picks files to compact, see the <link xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/xref/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.html#836">ascii diagram in the Store source code.</link>
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</para>
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<para>After a major compaction runs there will be a single storefile per store, and this will help performance usually. Caution: major compactions rewrite all of the stores data and on a loaded system, this may not be tenable;
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major compactions will usually have to be <xref linkend="disable.splitting" /> on large systems.
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major compactions will usually have to be done manually on large systems. See <xref linkend="managed.compactions" />.
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</para>
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</section>
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of all regions.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="managed.compactions"><title>Managed Compactions</title>
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<para>A common administrative technique is to manage major compactions manually, rather than letting
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HBase do it. By default, <varname>HConstants.MAJOR_COMPACTION_PERIOD</varname> is one day and major compactions
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may kick in when you least desire it - especially on a busy system. To "turn off" automatic major compactions set
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the value to <varname>Long.MAX_VALUE</varname>.
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</para>
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<para>It is important to stress that major compactions are absolutely necessary for StoreFile cleanup, the only variant is when
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they occur. They can be administered through the HBase shell, or via
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<link xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.html#majorCompact%28java.lang.String%29">HBaseAdmin</link>.
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</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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<para>See <link xlink:href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3678">HBASE-3678 Add Eclipse-based Apache Formatter to HBase Wiki</link>
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for an Eclipse formatter to help ensure your code conforms to HBase'y coding conventsion.
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The issue includes instructions for loading the attached formatter.</para>
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<para>Also, no @author tags - that's a rule. Quality Javadoc comments are appreciated. And include the Apache license.</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="eclipse.svn">
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<title>Subversive Plugin</title>
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<section xml:id="getting.involved">
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<title>Getting Involved</title>
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<para>HBase gets better only when people contribute! The following are highlights from the HBase wiki on
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<link xlink:href="http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HowToContribute">How To Contribute</link>.
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<para>HBase gets better only when people contribute!
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</para>
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<section xml:id="mailing.list">
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<title>Mailing Lists</title>
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<para>Sign up for the dev-list, and the user-list too for greater coverage. See the
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<para>Sign up for the dev-list and the user-list. See the
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<link xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/mail-lists.html">mailing lists</link> page.
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Posing questions - and helping to answer other people's questions - is encouraged!
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There are varying levels of experience on both lists so patience and politeness are encouraged (and please
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stay on topic.)
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="jira">
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If it's either a new feature request, enhancement, or a bug, file a ticket.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="codelines"><title>Codelines</title>
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<para>Most development is done on TRUNK. However, there are branches for minor releases (e.g., 0.90.1, 0.90.2, and 0.90.3 are on the 0.90 branch).</para>
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<para>If you have any questions on this just send an email to the dev dist-list.</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="submitting.patches">
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<title>Submitting Patches</title>
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<section xml:id="submitting.patches.create">
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<title>Create Patch</title>
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<para>Patch files can be easily generated from Eclipse, for example by selecting Team -> Create Patch.
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<para>Patch files can be easily generated from Eclipse, for example by selecting "Team -> Create Patch".
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</para>
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<para>Please submit one patch-file per Jira. For example, if multiple files are changed make sure the
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selected resource when generating the patch is a directory. Patch files can reflect changes in multiple files. </para>
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<para>Make sure you review <xref linkend="eclipse.code.formatting"/> for code style. </para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="submitting.patches.naming">
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<title>Patch File Naming</title>
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<section xml:id="submitting.patches.tests">
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<title>Unit Tests</title>
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<para>Yes, please. Please try to include unit tests with every code patch (and especially new classes and large changes).</para>
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<para>Also, please make sure unit tests pass locally before submitting the patch.</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="submitting.patches.jira">
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<title>Attach Patch to Jira</title>
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<para>The patch should be attached to the associated Jira ticket.
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<para>The patch should be attached to the associated Jira ticket "More Actions -> Attach Files". Make sure you click the
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ASF license inclusion, otherwise the patch can't be considered for inclusion.
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</para>
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<para>Once attached to the ticket, click "submit patch" and
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<para>Once attached to the ticket, click "Submit Patch" and
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the status of the ticket will change. Committers will review submitted patches for inclusion into the codebase. Please
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understand that not every patch may get committed, and that feedback will likely be provided on the patch. Fear not, though,
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because the HBase community is helpful!
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<section xml:id="committing.patches">
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<title>Committing Patches</title>
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<para>
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See <link xlink:href="http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HowToCommit">How To Commit</link> in the HBase wiki.
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Committers do this. See <link xlink:href="http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HowToCommit">How To Commit</link> in the HBase wiki.
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</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="perf.hbase.write.mr.reducer">
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<title>MapReduce: Skip The Reducer</title>
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<para>When writing a lot of data to an HBase table in a in a Mapper (e.g., with <link
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xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableOutputFormat.html">TableOutputFormat</link>),
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skip the Reducer step whenever possible. When a Reducer step is used, all of the output (Puts) from the Mapper will get spooled to disk, then shuffled to other
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Reducers that will most likely be off-node.
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<para>When writing a lot of data to an HBase table from a MR job (e.g., with <link
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xlink:href="http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableOutputFormat.html">TableOutputFormat</link>), and specifically where Puts are being emitted
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from the Mapper, skip the Reducer step. When a Reducer step is used, all of the output (Puts) from the Mapper will get spooled to disk, then sorted/shuffled to other
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Reducers that will most likely be off-node. It's far more efficient to just write directly to HBase.
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</para>
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<para>For summary jobs where HBase is used as a source and a sink, then writes will be coming from the Reducer step (e.g., summarize values then write out result).
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This is a different processing problem than from the the above case.
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</para>
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</section>
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