https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Is-there-a-way-to-find-the-completion-of-major-compaction/m-p/183466#M145628 <P>bq. 1) How to figure out the completion status for the compaction, since hbase client api majorCompact is an Asynchorous process</P><P>you can use below API.</P><PRE>CompactionState compactionState = admin.getCompactionState(table.getName());</PRE><P>2) Is it mandatory to wait until compaction process completion , to query hbase for real time process</P><P>Check your resources consumption with compaction as it impacts I/O, CPU usage and network . In standard server configuration , it is fine to run real time process during compaction.</P> Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:15:38 GMT asinghal 2017-09-13T13:15:38Z