https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Phoenix-Salted-tables/m-p/139554#M23513 <P>You are right, you can have more than 256 region servers, but the 'salt' is limited by 256. The reason is that the single byte is using for 'salt'</P> Wed, 23 Mar 2016 01:07:50 GMT ssoldatov 2016-03-23T01:07:50Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Phoenix-Salted-tables/m-p/139553#M23512 <P>From phoenix docs: <A target="_blank" href="https://phoenix.apache.org/salted.html">https://phoenix.apache.org/salted.html</A>:</P><P>"Phoenix provides a way to transparently salt the row key with a salting byte for a particular table. You need to specify this in table creation time by specifying a table property “SALT_BUCKETS” with a value from 1 to 256."</P><P><STRONG>Questions:</STRONG></P><P>- Does it mean number of region server in hbase cluster is limit to 256? </P><P>- My understanding is you can have more than 256 region servers, but the "salt" will be only between 1 and 256. Is that right?</P><P>Thanks.</P><P>Guilherme.</P> Wed, 23 Mar 2016 01:00:04 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Phoenix-Salted-tables/m-p/139553#M23512 gbraccialli3 2016-03-23T01:00:04Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Phoenix-Salted-tables/m-p/139554#M23513 <P>You are right, you can have more than 256 region servers, but the 'salt' is limited by 256. The reason is that the single byte is using for 'salt'</P> Wed, 23 Mar 2016 01:07:50 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Phoenix-Salted-tables/m-p/139554#M23513 ssoldatov 2016-03-23T01:07:50Z