Phoenix Salted tables

[#1]

From phoenix docs: https://phoenix.apache.org/salted.html:

"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."

Questions:

- Does it mean number of region server in hbase cluster is limit to 256?

- My understanding is you can have more than 256 region servers, but the "salt" will be only between 1 and 256. Is that right?

Thanks.

Guilherme.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

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'