What is the meaning of compaction in hbase?



What is the meaning of compaction in hbase?..

Answer / Santosh Kumar Niranjan

Compaction in HBase refers to the process of merging multiple data files, known as HFiles, into a single file to reduce the size of the table and improve performance.

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