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Hbase balancer at a table level

arunpoy — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:51:19 GMT

How to use the balancer for hbase at a table level. I see that a balancer runs at a cluster level. IS there a wa y to use the balancer at a table level.

Re: Hbase balancer at a table level

rchintaguntla — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:15:44 GMT

You can add following property with true to balance by table and restart masters.

hbase.master.loadbalance.bytable

Re: Hbase balancer at a table level

arunpoy — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:41:48 GMT

hi @Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla, if this propert is set to true, will all the new tables that gets created in the future too balance accordingly?.

Re: Hbase balancer at a table level

rchintaguntla — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:52:36 GMT

@ARUN Yes.

Re: Hbase balancer at a table level

arunpoy — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:55:31 GMT

Thanks a llot @Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla

Re: Hbase balancer at a table level

aervits — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:26 GMT

@ARUN please keep in mind that by setting this property you're giving load balancer algorithm limited information about the load on your cluster. It will impact it's ability to balance the regions.