This chapter describes several ways to optimize HBase I/O. We start with an overview of HBase I/O, followed by a discussion of configuration options.
The information in this section is oriented toward basic BlockCache and MemStore tuning. As such, it describes a subset of cache configuration options. HDP supports additional BlockCache and MemStore properties, as well as other configurable performance optimizations such as RPC, HFile block size settings, and HFile compaction. For a complete list of configurable properties, see the hbase-default.xml source file in GitHub.
