How to Create a table with region replication in Hbase

Question

What should I add in the Hbase shell to create a table with region replication in Hbase? Can anyone help that?

Answer 1

Hi,

Region replication is a per-table property. All tables have REGION_REPLICATION = 1 by default, which means that there is only one replica per region. You can set and change the number of replicas per region of a table by supplying the REGION_REPLICATION property in the table descriptor.

In your shell you can use this:

create 't1', 'f1', {REGION_REPLICATION => 2}

describe 't1'
for i in 1..100
put 't1', "r#{i}", 'f1:c1', i
end
flush 't1'