https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-many-salt-buckets-should-I-use-for-my-Phoenix-tables/m-p/159801#M122190 <H1></H1><P>Consider following points to decide salting buckets:</P><OL><LI>No of region servers available</LI><LI>Expected write throughput</LI><LI>HBase key itself (If it is random enough(not to cause hotspots) than i will suggest pre-splitting without salting to get better scans)</LI><LI>Increasing salt buckets to high number may result in slower scans(depending on table size and scan)</LI></OL> Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:07:24 GMT ajay_kumar 2016-04-19T07:07:24Z