If it is a homogenous data set, there is no advantage to breaking the table into multiple tables; he is what regions within the table are for.Ianps - Please do not cross post to both dev@ and user@.On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:51 PM, tgh wrote:> Hi> I try to use hbase to store 100billion short texts messages, each> message has less than 1000 character and some other items, that is, each> messages has less t