In this chapter, we will cover:
Benchmarking HBase cluster with YCSB
Increasing region server handler count
Precreating regions using your own algorithm
Avoiding update blocking on write-heavy clusters
Tuning memory size for MemStores
Client side tuning for low latency systems
Configuring block cache for column families
Increasing block cache size on read-heavy clusters
Client side scanner setting
Tuning block size to improve seek performance
Enabling Bloom Filter to improve the overall throughput