[KUDU-818] Support table partitioning other than PK range partitioning

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Private Beta
• Component/s: client, master, tserver
• Labels: roadmap-candidate
• Target Version/s: Public beta
• Assignee: Dan Burkert
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 10/Jun/15 21:32
• Updated: 18/Jun/19 13:02
• Resolved: 17/Sep/15 17:55

Description

Currently we only support HBase-style range partitioning. We should support other partitioning strategies which make Kudu more attractive for the workloads we're targeting. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oFAIGY5hTp1WksHPCXlB_8viiAU3QNxDMvfaeMNZBck/edit#

Issue Links

• is related to: KUDU-819 Allow explicit management of tablet creation/deletion

Sub-Tasks

• Document flexible partitioning: Resolved