https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-many-salt-buckets-should-I-use-for-my-Phoenix-tables/m-p/159798#M122187 <P>Since the number of salt buckets can only be set a table creation time this can be a little tricky. It takes a small amount of foresight in understanding your needs from the table AKA will the table be more read heavy or write heavy. A neutral stance would be to set the number of salt buckets to the number of Hbase RegionServers in your cluster. If you anticipate heavy write loads increasing that to something around {Hbase RegionServer Count * 1.20} which would increase the number of buckets by 20% and allow for a more distributed load. Increasing the salt buckets too high however may reduce your flexibility when you perform range based queries.</P> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 03:29:10 GMT jdyer 2016-04-07T03:29:10Z