I understand by default hbase creates 3 versions of a table. This is taking
up more space than anticipated therefore I was wondering if I default to 1
version are there any drawbacks?
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You won't be able to see previous versions of a row.  If that's not
important to you, then changing it to 1 will save you space.

Per..

http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#schema.versions

... The older versions are cleaned up after a major compaction.

On 9/25/11 6:45 AM, "Rita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I understand by default hbase creates 3 versions of a table. This is
>taking
>up more space than anticipated therefore I was wondering if I default to 1
>version are there any drawbacks?
>
>
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You could also enable compression.
St.Ack

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Rita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I understand by default hbase creates 3 versions of a table. This is taking
> up more space than anticipated therefore I was wondering if I default to 1
> version are there any drawbacks?
>
>
> --
> --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
>

Would help if you could keep the column family names and the qualifier names
as small as possible. This helps in the reduction of storage space.

Cheers,
Akash A

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Stack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You could also enable compression.
> St.Ack
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Rita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I understand by default hbase creates 3 versions of a table. This is
> taking
> > up more space than anticipated therefore I was wondering if I default to
> 1
> > version are there any drawbacks?
> >
> >
> > --
> > --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
> >
>