https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Will-client-wait-during-the-compaction-in-hbase/m-p/193156#M73643 <P>no it will not. during compaction, temporary files are created which will be compacted. later when it's done the smaller files are removed and huge compacted files will come it it's place. So at no time client requests are blocked. response time might increase because of cpu overhead of compaction process. </P> Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:05:11 GMT sanketplus 2018-01-19T16:05:11Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Will-client-wait-during-the-compaction-in-hbase/m-p/193155#M73642 <P>Compaction is the common process in the hbase my doubt is </P><P>Will the client request wait until the compaction process complete or anything else?</P> Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:32:34 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Will-client-wait-during-the-compaction-in-hbase/m-p/193155#M73642 karthiknedunche 2018-01-18T18:32:34Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Will-client-wait-during-the-compaction-in-hbase/m-p/193156#M73643 <P>no it will not. during compaction, temporary files are created which will be compacted. later when it's done the smaller files are removed and huge compacted files will come it it's place. So at no time client requests are blocked. response time might increase because of cpu overhead of compaction process. </P> Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:05:11 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Will-client-wait-during-the-compaction-in-hbase/m-p/193156#M73643 sanketplus 2018-01-19T16:05:11Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Will-client-wait-during-the-compaction-in-hbase/m-p/193157#M73644 <P>Tnx bro....</P> Sat, 20 Jan 2018 14:01:16 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Will-client-wait-during-the-compaction-in-hbase/m-p/193157#M73644 karthiknedunche 2018-01-20T14:01:16Z