LA-HUG HBASE DO's and DON'Ts from Shopzilla on Vimeo.

At glance, the dos and don'ts are:

Do:

• Use a key prefix that distributes well


• Keep the number of regions reasonable - about 100 per node.


• Disable auto-compaction


• Use compression


• Explicitly put hbase-site.xml in your CLASSPATH


• Monitor the health of your cluster


• Store multiple copies for different access patterns

Don't:

• Wholesale replacement of every RDBMS


• Run huge MR Jobs directly off of HBase


• Use timestamps as teh first part of your key


• Allocate all CPUs to your TaskTrackers


• Mixed workloads with SLAs


• Use a single client bulk load or bulk load with put


• Let the Region Server Swap