is it possible for Load Balancer to create new regions?? i have a table with 100 regions and all regions have size less than 3.5 GB max region size is set to 10GB (default) daily load is via bulk loader and approx 250MB is added to each region but i see on daily basis new regions are added to this table (dont know why) New regions should be created only if size of region goes beyond 10GB and region split happens. Any help, thoughts are appriciated ... View more

I have created Hbase table using below commands and splitted table into 20 hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.RegionSplitter test_rec_a UniformSplit -c 20 -f rec alter 'test_rec_a', {METHOD => 'table_att', CONFIGURATION => {'SPLIT_POLICY' => 'org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy'}}, {NAME=>'rec', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROWCOL', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0', VERSIONS => '3', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', TTL =>'5184000', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', IN_MEMORY => 'true', BLOCKCACHE => 'true',MIN_VERSIONS => '0',KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'false'} enable 'test_rec_a' hbase config: max region size: 10GB I ran 3 bulk load jobs with 2, 9, 80 GB file ... files has all unique keys I was expecting that job run and load data in all 20 regions but loaded data in single region only is there something i am missing here?? i am looking to pre-split table into 20 regions but i don't know keys distribution as keys are hashed. is there a way to pre-split without knowing key distribution or not to pre-split is the right option?? thanks ... View more

We have a table... size of table is 8.7 GB number of regions was 5 we ran major compaction on table size increased to 21.7 GB but in some time, size came down to 8.7 GB as earlier but number of regions increased from 5 to 27 and then came down to 17 and then never came down to 5 again why is number of regions increased from 5 to 17 although size of data remains same?? ... View more