[HIVE-7128] Add direct support for creating and managing salted hbase tables

• Type: New Feature
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: HBase Handler
• Assignee: Swarnim Kulkarni
• Reporter: Swarnim Kulkarni
• Created: 27/May/14 15:33
• Updated: 29/Dec/14 00:14

Description

Salting is a very important technique in order to avoid hot-spotting in hbase. It will be very beneficial if with current hbase integration we can provide a direct support for salting. More information on salting can be found here[1]

[1] http://blog.sematext.com/2012/04/09/hbasewd-avoid-regionserver-hotspotting-despite-writing-records-with-sequential-keys/