The documentation below is generated using the default hbase configuration file, hbase-default.xml, as source.

hbase.tmp.dir

Temporary directory on the local filesystem. Change this setting to point to a location more permanent than '/tmp', the usual resolve for java.io.tmpdir, as the '/tmp' directory is cleared on machine restart.

Default. ${java.io.tmpdir}/hbase-${user.name}

hbase.rootdir

The directory shared by region servers and into which HBase persists. The URL should be 'fully-qualified' to include the filesystem scheme. For example, to specify the HDFS directory '/hbase' where the HDFS instance's namenode is running at namenode.example.org on port 9000, set this value to: hdfs://namenode.example.org:9000/hbase. By default, we write to whatever ${hbase.tmp.dir} is set too -- usually /tmp -- so change this configuration or else all data will be lost on machine restart.

Default. ${hbase.tmp.dir}/hbase

hbase.cluster.distributed

The mode the cluster will be in. Possible values are false for standalone mode and true for distributed mode. If false, startup will run all HBase and ZooKeeper daemons together in the one JVM.

Default. false

hbase.zookeeper.quorum

Comma separated list of servers in the ZooKeeper ensemble (This config. should have been named hbase.zookeeper.ensemble). For example, "host1.mydomain.com,host2.mydomain.com,host3.mydomain.com". By default this is set to localhost for local and pseudo-distributed modes of operation. For a fully-distributed setup, this should be set to a full list of ZooKeeper ensemble servers. If HBASE_MANAGES_ZK is set in hbase-env.sh this is the list of servers which hbase will start/stop ZooKeeper on as part of cluster start/stop. Client-side, we will take this list of ensemble members and put it together with the hbase.zookeeper.clientPort config. and pass it into zookeeper constructor as the connectString parameter.

Default. localhost

hbase.local.dir

Directory on the local filesystem to be used as a local storage.

Default. ${hbase.tmp.dir}/local/

hbase.master.port

The port the HBase Master should bind to.

Default. 60000

hbase.master.info.port

The port for the HBase Master web UI. Set to -1 if you do not want a UI instance run.

Default. 60010

hbase.master.info.bindAddress

The bind address for the HBase Master web UI

Default. 0.0.0.0

hbase.master.logcleaner.plugins

A comma-separated list of LogCleanerDelegate invoked by the LogsCleaner service. These WAL/HLog cleaners are called in order, so put the HLog cleaner that prunes the most HLog files in front. To implement your own LogCleanerDelegate, just put it in HBase's classpath and add the fully qualified class name here. Always add the above default log cleaners in the list.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.cleaner.TimeToLiveLogCleaner

hbase.master.logcleaner.ttl

Maximum time a HLog can stay in the .oldlogdir directory, after which it will be cleaned by a Master thread.

Default. 600000

hbase.master.hfilecleaner.plugins

A comma-separated list of HFileCleanerDelegate invoked by the HFileCleaner service. These HFiles cleaners are called in order, so put the cleaner that prunes the most files in front. To implement your own HFileCleanerDelegate, just put it in HBase's classpath and add the fully qualified class name here. Always add the above default log cleaners in the list as they will be overwritten in hbase-site.xml.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.cleaner.TimeToLiveHFileCleaner

hbase.master.catalog.timeout

Timeout value for the Catalog Janitor from the master to META.

Default. 600000

fail.fast.expired.active.master

If abort immediately for the expired master without trying to recover its zk session.

Default. false

hbase.master.dns.interface

The name of the Network Interface from which a master should report its IP address.

Default. default

hbase.master.dns.nameserver

The host name or IP address of the name server (DNS) which a master should use to determine the host name used for communication and display purposes.

Default. default

hbase.regionserver.port

The port the HBase RegionServer binds to.

Default. 60020

hbase.regionserver.info.port

The port for the HBase RegionServer web UI Set to -1 if you do not want the RegionServer UI to run.

Default. 60030

hbase.regionserver.info.bindAddress

The address for the HBase RegionServer web UI

Default. 0.0.0.0

hbase.regionserver.info.port.auto

Whether or not the Master or RegionServer UI should search for a port to bind to. Enables automatic port search if hbase.regionserver.info.port is already in use. Useful for testing, turned off by default.

Default. false

hbase.regionserver.handler.count

Count of RPC Listener instances spun up on RegionServers. Same property is used by the Master for count of master handlers.

Default. 30

hbase.ipc.server.callqueue.handler.factor

Factor to determine the number of call queues. A value of 0 means a single queue shared between all the handlers. A value of 1 means that each handler has its own queue.

Default. 0.1

hbase.ipc.server.callqueue.read.share

Split the call queues into read and write queues. A value of 0 indicate to not split the call queues. A value of 0.5 means there will be the same number of read and write queues A value of 1.0 means that all the queues except one are used to dispatch read requests.

Default. 0

hbase.regionserver.msginterval

Interval between messages from the RegionServer to Master in milliseconds.

Default. 3000

hbase.regionserver.regionSplitLimit

Limit for the number of regions after which no more region splitting should take place. This is not a hard limit for the number of regions but acts as a guideline for the regionserver to stop splitting after a certain limit. Default is MAX_INT; i.e. do not block splitting.

Default. 2147483647

hbase.regionserver.logroll.period

Period at which we will roll the commit log regardless of how many edits it has.

Default. 3600000

hbase.regionserver.logroll.errors.tolerated

The number of consecutive WAL close errors we will allow before triggering a server abort. A setting of 0 will cause the region server to abort if closing the current WAL writer fails during log rolling. Even a small value (2 or 3) will allow a region server to ride over transient HDFS errors.

Default. 2

hbase.regionserver.hlog.reader.impl

The HLog file reader implementation.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.ProtobufLogReader

hbase.regionserver.hlog.writer.impl

The HLog file writer implementation.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.ProtobufLogWriter

hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.upperLimit

Maximum size of all memstores in a region server before new updates are blocked and flushes are forced. Defaults to 40% of heap. Updates are blocked and flushes are forced until size of all memstores in a region server hits hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.lowerLimit.

Default. 0.4

hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.lowerLimit

Maximum size of all memstores in a region server before flushes are forced. Defaults to 38% of heap. This value equal to hbase.regionserver.global.memstore.upperLimit causes the minimum possible flushing to occur when updates are blocked due to memstore limiting.

Default. 0.38

hbase.regionserver.optionalcacheflushinterval

Maximum amount of time an edit lives in memory before being automatically flushed. Default 1 hour. Set it to 0 to disable automatic flushing.

Default. 3600000

hbase.regionserver.catalog.timeout

Timeout value for the Catalog Janitor from the regionserver to META.

Default. 600000

hbase.regionserver.dns.interface

The name of the Network Interface from which a region server should report its IP address.

Default. default

hbase.regionserver.dns.nameserver

The host name or IP address of the name server (DNS) which a region server should use to determine the host name used by the master for communication and display purposes.

Default. default

hbase.regionserver.region.split.policy

A split policy determines when a region should be split. The various other split policies that are available currently are ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy, DisabledRegionSplitPolicy, DelimitedKeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy, KeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy etc.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy

zookeeper.session.timeout

ZooKeeper session timeout in milliseconds. It is used in two different ways. First, this value is used in the ZK client that HBase uses to connect to the ensemble. It is also used by HBase when it starts a ZK server and it is passed as the 'maxSessionTimeout'. See http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperProgrammers.html#ch_zkSessions. For example, if a HBase region server connects to a ZK ensemble that's also managed by HBase, then the session timeout will be the one specified by this configuration. But, a region server that connects to an ensemble managed with a different configuration will be subjected that ensemble's maxSessionTimeout. So, even though HBase might propose using 90 seconds, the ensemble can have a max timeout lower than this and it will take precedence. The current default that ZK ships with is 40 seconds, which is lower than HBase's.

Default. 90000

zookeeper.znode.parent

Root ZNode for HBase in ZooKeeper. All of HBase's ZooKeeper files that are configured with a relative path will go under this node. By default, all of HBase's ZooKeeper file path are configured with a relative path, so they will all go under this directory unless changed.

Default. /hbase

zookeeper.znode.rootserver

Path to ZNode holding root region location. This is written by the master and read by clients and region servers. If a relative path is given, the parent folder will be ${zookeeper.znode.parent}. By default, this means the root location is stored at /hbase/root-region-server.

Default. root-region-server

zookeeper.znode.acl.parent

Root ZNode for access control lists.

Default. acl

hbase.zookeeper.dns.interface

The name of the Network Interface from which a ZooKeeper server should report its IP address.

Default. default

hbase.zookeeper.dns.nameserver

The host name or IP address of the name server (DNS) which a ZooKeeper server should use to determine the host name used by the master for communication and display purposes.

Default. default

hbase.zookeeper.peerport

Port used by ZooKeeper peers to talk to each other. Seehttp://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.1.1/zookeeperStarted.html#sc_RunningReplicatedZooKeeper for more information.

Default. 2888

hbase.zookeeper.leaderport

Port used by ZooKeeper for leader election. See http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.1.1/zookeeperStarted.html#sc_RunningReplicatedZooKeeper for more information.

Default. 3888

hbase.zookeeper.useMulti

Instructs HBase to make use of ZooKeeper's multi-update functionality. This allows certain ZooKeeper operations to complete more quickly and prevents some issues with rare Replication failure scenarios (see the release note of HBASE-2611 for an example). IMPORTANT: only set this to true if all ZooKeeper servers in the cluster are on version 3.4+ and will not be downgraded. ZooKeeper versions before 3.4 do not support multi-update and will not fail gracefully if multi-update is invoked (see ZOOKEEPER-1495).

Default. false

hbase.config.read.zookeeper.config

Set to true to allow HBaseConfiguration to read the zoo.cfg file for ZooKeeper properties. Switching this to true is not recommended, since the functionality of reading ZK properties from a zoo.cfg file has been deprecated.

Default. false

hbase.zookeeper.property.initLimit

Property from ZooKeeper's config zoo.cfg. The number of ticks that the initial synchronization phase can take.

Default. 10

hbase.zookeeper.property.syncLimit

Property from ZooKeeper's config zoo.cfg. The number of ticks that can pass between sending a request and getting an acknowledgment.

Default. 5

hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir

Property from ZooKeeper's config zoo.cfg. The directory where the snapshot is stored.

Default. ${hbase.tmp.dir}/zookeeper

hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort

Property from ZooKeeper's config zoo.cfg. The port at which the clients will connect.

Default. 2181

hbase.zookeeper.property.maxClientCnxns

Property from ZooKeeper's config zoo.cfg. Limit on number of concurrent connections (at the socket level) that a single client, identified by IP address, may make to a single member of the ZooKeeper ensemble. Set high to avoid zk connection issues running standalone and pseudo-distributed.

Default. 300

hbase.client.write.buffer

Default size of the HTable client write buffer in bytes. A bigger buffer takes more memory -- on both the client and server side since server instantiates the passed write buffer to process it -- but a larger buffer size reduces the number of RPCs made. For an estimate of server-side memory-used, evaluate hbase.client.write.buffer * hbase.regionserver.handler.count

Default. 2097152

hbase.client.pause

General client pause value. Used mostly as value to wait before running a retry of a failed get, region lookup, etc. See hbase.client.retries.number for description of how we backoff from this initial pause amount and how this pause works w/ retries.

Default. 100

hbase.client.retries.number

Maximum retries. Used as maximum for all retryable operations such as the getting of a cell's value, starting a row update, etc. Retry interval is a rough function based on hbase.client.pause. At first we retry at this interval but then with backoff, we pretty quickly reach retrying every ten seconds. See HConstants#RETRY_BACKOFF for how the backup ramps up. Change this setting and hbase.client.pause to suit your workload.

Default. 35

hbase.client.max.total.tasks

The maximum number of concurrent tasks a single HTable instance will send to the cluster.

Default. 100

hbase.client.max.perserver.tasks

The maximum number of concurrent tasks a single HTable instance will send to a single region server.

Default. 5

hbase.client.max.perregion.tasks

The maximum number of concurrent connections the client will maintain to a single Region. That is, if there is already hbase.client.max.perregion.tasks writes in progress for this region, new puts won't be sent to this region until some writes finishes.

Default. 1

hbase.client.scanner.caching

Number of rows that will be fetched when calling next on a scanner if it is not served from (local, client) memory. Higher caching values will enable faster scanners but will eat up more memory and some calls of next may take longer and longer times when the cache is empty. Do not set this value such that the time between invocations is greater than the scanner timeout; i.e. hbase.client.scanner.timeout.period

Default. 100

hbase.client.keyvalue.maxsize

Specifies the combined maximum allowed size of a KeyValue instance. This is to set an upper boundary for a single entry saved in a storage file. Since they cannot be split it helps avoiding that a region cannot be split any further because the data is too large. It seems wise to set this to a fraction of the maximum region size. Setting it to zero or less disables the check.

Default. 10485760

hbase.client.scanner.timeout.period

Client scanner lease period in milliseconds.

Default. 60000

hbase.client.localityCheck.threadPoolSize

Default. 2

hbase.client.prefetch

Toggles region location prefetching on or off.

Default. true

hbase.client.prefetch.limit

The maximum number of region locations that will be prefetched at one time.

Default. 10

hbase.bulkload.retries.number

Maximum retries. This is maximum number of iterations to atomic bulk loads are attempted in the face of splitting operations 0 means never give up.

Default. 0

hbase.balancer.period

Period at which the region balancer runs in the Master.

Default. 300000

hbase.regions.slop

Rebalance if any regionserver has average + (average * slop) regions.

Default. 0.2

hbase.server.thread.wakefrequency

Time to sleep in between searches for work (in milliseconds). Used as sleep interval by service threads such as log roller.

Default. 10000

hbase.server.versionfile.writeattempts

How many time to retry attempting to write a version file before just aborting. Each attempt is seperated by the hbase.server.thread.wakefrequency milliseconds.

Default. 3

hbase.hregion.memstore.flush.size

Memstore will be flushed to disk if size of the memstore exceeds this number of bytes. Value is checked by a thread that runs every hbase.server.thread.wakefrequency.

Default. 134217728

hbase.hregion.preclose.flush.size

If the memstores in a region are this size or larger when we go to close, run a "pre-flush" to clear out memstores before we put up the region closed flag and take the region offline. On close, a flush is run under the close flag to empty memory. During this time the region is offline and we are not taking on any writes. If the memstore content is large, this flush could take a long time to complete. The preflush is meant to clean out the bulk of the memstore before putting up the close flag and taking the region offline so the flush that runs under the close flag has little to do.

Default. 5242880

hbase.hregion.memstore.block.multiplier

Block updates if memstore has hbase.hregion.memstore.block.multiplier times hbase.hregion.memstore.flush.size bytes. Useful preventing runaway memstore during spikes in update traffic. Without an upper-bound, memstore fills such that when it flushes the resultant flush files take a long time to compact or split, or worse, we OOME.

Default. 4

hbase.hregion.memstore.mslab.enabled

Enables the MemStore-Local Allocation Buffer, a feature which works to prevent heap fragmentation under heavy write loads. This can reduce the frequency of stop-the-world GC pauses on large heaps.

Default. true

hbase.hregion.max.filesize

Maximum HStoreFile size. If any one of a column families' HStoreFiles has grown to exceed this value, the hosting HRegion is split in two.

Default. 10737418240

hbase.hregion.majorcompaction

The time (in miliseconds) between 'major' compactions of all HStoreFiles in a region. Default: Set to 7 days. Major compactions tend to happen exactly when you need them least so enable them such that they run at off-peak for your deploy; or, since this setting is on a periodicity that is unlikely to match your loading, run the compactions via an external invocation out of a cron job or some such.

Default. 604800000

hbase.hregion.majorcompaction.jitter

Jitter outer bound for major compactions. On each regionserver, we multiply the hbase.region.majorcompaction interval by some random fraction that is inside the bounds of this maximum. We then add this + or - product to when the next major compaction is to run. The idea is that major compaction does happen on every regionserver at exactly the same time. The smaller this number, the closer the compactions come together.

Default. 0.50

hbase.hstore.compactionThreshold

If more than this number of HStoreFiles in any one HStore (one HStoreFile is written per flush of memstore) then a compaction is run to rewrite all HStoreFiles files as one. Larger numbers put off compaction but when it runs, it takes longer to complete.

Default. 3

hbase.hstore.flusher.count

The number of flush threads. With less threads, the memstore flushes will be queued. With more threads, the flush will be executed in parallel, increasing the hdfs load. This can lead as well to more compactions.

Default. 2

hbase.hstore.blockingStoreFiles

If more than this number of StoreFiles in any one Store (one StoreFile is written per flush of MemStore) then updates are blocked for this HRegion until a compaction is completed, or until hbase.hstore.blockingWaitTime has been exceeded.

Default. 10

hbase.hstore.blockingWaitTime

The time an HRegion will block updates for after hitting the StoreFile limit defined by hbase.hstore.blockingStoreFiles. After this time has elapsed, the HRegion will stop blocking updates even if a compaction has not been completed.

Default. 90000

hbase.hstore.compaction.max

Max number of HStoreFiles to compact per 'minor' compaction.

Default. 10

hbase.hstore.compaction.kv.max

How many KeyValues to read and then write in a batch when flushing or compacting. Do less if big KeyValues and problems with OOME. Do more if wide, small rows.

Default. 10

hbase.storescanner.parallel.seek.enable

Enables StoreFileScanner parallel-seeking in StoreScanner, a feature which can reduce response latency under special conditions.

Default. false

hbase.storescanner.parallel.seek.threads

The default thread pool size if parallel-seeking feature enabled.

Default. 10

hfile.block.cache.size

Percentage of maximum heap (-Xmx setting) to allocate to block cache used by HFile/StoreFile. Default of 0.4 means allocate 40%. Set to 0 to disable but it's not recommended; you need at least enough cache to hold the storefile indices.

Default. 0.4

hfile.block.index.cacheonwrite

This allows to put non-root multi-level index blocks into the block cache at the time the index is being written.

Default. false

hfile.index.block.max.size

When the size of a leaf-level, intermediate-level, or root-level index block in a multi-level block index grows to this size, the block is written out and a new block is started.

Default. 131072

hfile.format.version

The HFile format version to use for new files. Set this to 1 to test backwards-compatibility. The default value of this option should be consistent with FixedFileTrailer.MAX_VERSION.

Default. 2

hfile.block.bloom.cacheonwrite

Enables cache-on-write for inline blocks of a compound Bloom filter.

Default. false

io.storefile.bloom.block.size

The size in bytes of a single block ("chunk") of a compound Bloom filter. This size is approximate, because Bloom blocks can only be inserted at data block boundaries, and the number of keys per data block varies.

Default. 131072

hbase.rs.cacheblocksonwrite

Whether an HFile block should be added to the block cache when the block is finished.

Default. false

hbase.rpc.server.engine

Implementation of org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcServerEngine to be used for server RPC call marshalling.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.ProtobufRpcServerEngine

hbase.rpc.timeout

This is for the RPC layer to define how long HBase client applications take for a remote call to time out. It uses pings to check connections but will eventually throw a TimeoutException.

Default. 60000

hbase.rpc.shortoperation.timeout

This is another version of "hbase.rpc.timeout". For those RPC operation within cluster, we rely on this configuration to set a short timeout limitation for short operation. For example, short rpc timeout for region server's trying to report to active master can benefit quicker master failover process.

Default. 10000

hbase.ipc.client.tcpnodelay

Set no delay on rpc socket connections. See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html#getTcpNoDelay()

Default. true

hbase.master.keytab.file

Full path to the kerberos keytab file to use for logging in the configured HMaster server principal.

Default. 

hbase.master.kerberos.principal

Ex. "hbase/_HOST@EXAMPLE.COM". The kerberos principal name that should be used to run the HMaster process. The principal name should be in the form: user/hostname@DOMAIN. If "_HOST" is used as the hostname portion, it will be replaced with the actual hostname of the running instance.

Default. 

hbase.regionserver.keytab.file

Full path to the kerberos keytab file to use for logging in the configured HRegionServer server principal.

Default. 

hbase.regionserver.kerberos.principal

Ex. "hbase/_HOST@EXAMPLE.COM". The kerberos principal name that should be used to run the HRegionServer process. The principal name should be in the form: user/hostname@DOMAIN. If "_HOST" is used as the hostname portion, it will be replaced with the actual hostname of the running instance. An entry for this principal must exist in the file specified in hbase.regionserver.keytab.file

Default. 

hadoop.policy.file

The policy configuration file used by RPC servers to make authorization decisions on client requests. Only used when HBase security is enabled.

Default. hbase-policy.xml

hbase.superuser

List of users or groups (comma-separated), who are allowed full privileges, regardless of stored ACLs, across the cluster. Only used when HBase security is enabled.

Default. 

hbase.auth.key.update.interval

The update interval for master key for authentication tokens in servers in milliseconds. Only used when HBase security is enabled.

Default. 86400000

hbase.auth.token.max.lifetime

The maximum lifetime in milliseconds after which an authentication token expires. Only used when HBase security is enabled.

Default. 604800000

hbase.ipc.client.fallback-to-simple-auth-allowed

When a client is configured to attempt a secure connection, but attempts to connect to an insecure server, that server may instruct the client to switch to SASL SIMPLE (unsecure) authentication. This setting controls whether or not the client will accept this instruction from the server. When false (the default), the client will not allow the fallback to SIMPLE authentication, and will abort the connection.

Default. false

hbase.coprocessor.region.classes

A comma-separated list of Coprocessors that are loaded by default on all tables. For any override coprocessor method, these classes will be called in order. After implementing your own Coprocessor, just put it in HBase's classpath and add the fully qualified class name here. A coprocessor can also be loaded on demand by setting HTableDescriptor.

Default. 

hbase.rest.port

The port for the HBase REST server.

Default. 8080

hbase.rest.readonly

Defines the mode the REST server will be started in. Possible values are: false: All HTTP methods are permitted - GET/PUT/POST/DELETE. true: Only the GET method is permitted.

Default. false

hbase.rest.threads.max

The maximum number of threads of the REST server thread pool. Threads in the pool are reused to process REST requests. This controls the maximum number of requests processed concurrently. It may help to control the memory used by the REST server to avoid OOM issues. If the thread pool is full, incoming requests will be queued up and wait for some free threads.

Default. 100

hbase.rest.threads.min

The minimum number of threads of the REST server thread pool. The thread pool always has at least these number of threads so the REST server is ready to serve incoming requests.

Default. 2

hbase.rest.support.proxyuser

Enables running the REST server to support proxy-user mode.

Default. false

hbase.defaults.for.version.skip

Set to true to skip the 'hbase.defaults.for.version' check. Setting this to true can be useful in contexts other than the other side of a maven generation; i.e. running in an ide. You'll want to set this boolean to true to avoid seeing the RuntimException complaint: "hbase-default.xml file seems to be for and old version of HBase (\${hbase.version}), this version is X.X.X-SNAPSHOT"

Default. false

hbase.coprocessor.master.classes

A comma-separated list of org.apache.hadoop.hbase.coprocessor.MasterObserver coprocessors that are loaded by default on the active HMaster process. For any implemented coprocessor methods, the listed classes will be called in order. After implementing your own MasterObserver, just put it in HBase's classpath and add the fully qualified class name here.

Default. 

hbase.coprocessor.abortonerror

Set to true to cause the hosting server (master or regionserver) to abort if a coprocessor fails to load, fails to initialize, or throws an unexpected Throwable object. Setting this to false will allow the server to continue execution but the system wide state of the coprocessor in question will become inconsistent as it will be properly executing in only a subset of servers, so this is most useful for debugging only.

Default. true

hbase.online.schema.update.enable

Set true to enable online schema changes.

Default. true

hbase.table.lock.enable

Set to true to enable locking the table in zookeeper for schema change operations. Table locking from master prevents concurrent schema modifications to corrupt table state.

Default. true

hbase.thrift.minWorkerThreads

The "core size" of the thread pool. New threads are created on every connection until this many threads are created.

Default. 16

hbase.thrift.maxWorkerThreads

The maximum size of the thread pool. When the pending request queue overflows, new threads are created until their number reaches this number. After that, the server starts dropping connections.

Default. 1000

hbase.thrift.maxQueuedRequests

The maximum number of pending Thrift connections waiting in the queue. If there are no idle threads in the pool, the server queues requests. Only when the queue overflows, new threads are added, up to hbase.thrift.maxQueuedRequests threads.

Default. 1000

hbase.thrift.htablepool.size.max

The upper bound for the table pool used in the Thrift gateways server. Since this is per table name, we assume a single table and so with 1000 default worker threads max this is set to a matching number. For other workloads this number can be adjusted as needed.

Default. 1000

hbase.regionserver.thrift.framed

Use Thrift TFramedTransport on the server side. This is the recommended transport for thrift servers and requires a similar setting on the client side. Changing this to false will select the default transport, vulnerable to DoS when malformed requests are issued due to THRIFT-601.

Default. false

hbase.regionserver.thrift.framed.max_frame_size_in_mb

Default frame size when using framed transport

Default. 2

hbase.regionserver.thrift.compact

Use Thrift TCompactProtocol binary serialization protocol.

Default. false

hbase.offheapcache.percentage

The amount of off heap space to be allocated towards the experimental off heap cache. If you desire the cache to be disabled, simply set this value to 0.

Default. 0

hbase.data.umask.enable

Enable, if true, that file permissions should be assigned to the files written by the regionserver

Default. false

hbase.data.umask

File permissions that should be used to write data files when hbase.data.umask.enable is true

Default. 000

hbase.metrics.showTableName

Whether to include the prefix "tbl.tablename" in per-column family metrics. If true, for each metric M, per-cf metrics will be reported for tbl.T.cf.CF.M, if false, per-cf metrics will be aggregated by column-family across tables, and reported for cf.CF.M. In both cases, the aggregated metric M across tables and cfs will be reported.

Default. true

hbase.metrics.exposeOperationTimes

Whether to report metrics about time taken performing an operation on the region server. Get, Put, Delete, Increment, and Append can all have their times exposed through Hadoop metrics per CF and per region.

Default. true

hbase.snapshot.enabled

Set to true to allow snapshots to be taken / restored / cloned.

Default. true

hbase.snapshot.format.version

The Snapshot format version to use for new snapshots. 1 is the old format used by 0.94, 0.96 and 0.98 as default. 2 is the new format, which should be used if all the clients that are accessing snapshots via MR job are updated with the latest hbase jars. By switching to version 2, the previous snapshots will still be readable.

Default. 1

hbase.snapshot.restore.take.failsafe.snapshot

Set to true to take a snapshot before the restore operation. The snapshot taken will be used in case of failure, to restore the previous state. At the end of the restore operation this snapshot will be deleted

Default. true

hbase.snapshot.restore.failsafe.name

Name of the failsafe snapshot taken by the restore operation. You can use the {snapshot.name}, {table.name} and {restore.timestamp} variables to create a name based on what you are restoring.

Default. hbase-failsafe-{snapshot.name}-{restore.timestamp}

hbase.server.compactchecker.interval.multiplier

The number that determines how often we scan to see if compaction is necessary. Normally, compactions are done after some events (such as memstore flush), but if region didn't receive a lot of writes for some time, or due to different compaction policies, it may be necessary to check it periodically. The interval between checks is hbase.server.compactchecker.interval.multiplier multiplied by hbase.server.thread.wakefrequency.

Default. 1000

hbase.lease.recovery.timeout

How long we wait on dfs lease recovery in total before giving up.

Default. 900000

hbase.lease.recovery.dfs.timeout

How long between dfs recover lease invocations. Should be larger than the sum of the time it takes for the namenode to issue a block recovery command as part of datanode; dfs.heartbeat.interval and the time it takes for the primary datanode, performing block recovery to timeout on a dead datanode; usually dfs.socket.timeout. See the end of HBASE-8389 for more.

Default. 64000

hbase.column.max.version

New column family descriptors will use this value as the default number of versions to keep.

Default. 1

hbase.dfs.client.read.shortcircuit.buffer.size

If the DFSClient configuration dfs.client.read.shortcircuit.buffer.size is unset, we will use what is configured here as the short circuit read default direct byte buffer size. DFSClient native default is 1MB; HBase keeps its HDFS files open so number of file blocks * 1MB soon starts to add up and threaten OOME because of a shortage of direct memory. So, we set it down from the default. Make it > the default hbase block size set in the HColumnDescriptor which is usually 64k.

Default. 131072

hbase.regionserver.checksum.verify

If set to true, HBase will read data and then verify checksums for hfile blocks. Checksum verification inside HDFS will be switched off. If the hbase-checksum verification fails, then it will switch back to using HDFS checksums.

Default. true

hbase.hstore.bytes.per.checksum

Number of bytes in a newly created checksum chunk for HBase-level checksums in hfile blocks.

Default. 16384

hbase.hstore.checksum.algorithm

Name of an algorithm that is used to compute checksums. Possible values are NULL, CRC32, CRC32C.

Default. CRC32

hbase.status.published

This setting activates the publication by the master of the status of the region server. When a region server dies and its recovery starts, the master will push this information to the client application, to let them cut the connection immediately instead of waiting for a timeout.

Default. false

hbase.status.publisher.class

Implementation of the status publication with a multicast message.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.ClusterStatusPublisher$MulticastPublisher

hbase.status.listener.class

Implementation of the status listener with a multicast message.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClusterStatusListener$MulticastListener

hbase.status.multicast.address.ip

Multicast address to use for the status publication by multicast.

Default. 226.1.1.3

hbase.status.multicast.address.port

Multicast port to use for the status publication by multicast.

Default. 60100

hbase.dynamic.jars.dir

The directory from which the custom filter/co-processor jars can be loaded dynamically by the region server without the need to restart. However, an already loaded filter/co-processor class would not be un-loaded. See HBASE-1936 for more details.

Default. ${hbase.rootdir}/lib

hbase.security.authentication

Controls whether or not secure authentication is enabled for HBase. Possible values are 'simple' (no authentication), and 'kerberos'.

Default. simple

hbase.rest.filter.classes

Servlet filters for REST service.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.rest.filter.GzipFilter

hbase.rest.filter.classes

Servlet filters for REST service.

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.rest.filter.GzipFilter

hbase.master.loadbalancer.class

Class used to execute the regions balancing when the period occurs. See the class comment for more on how it works http://hbase.apache.org/devapidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/balancer/StochasticLoadBalancer.html It replaces the DefaultLoadBalancer as the default (since renamed as the SimpleLoadBalancer).

Default. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.balancer.StochasticLoadBalancer

hbase.security.exec.permission.checks

If this setting is enabled and ACL based access control is active (the AccessController coprocessor is installed either as a system coprocessor or on a table as a table coprocessor) then you must grant all relevant users EXEC privilege if they require the ability to execute coprocessor endpoint calls. EXEC privilege, like any other permission, can be granted globally to a user, or to a user on a per table or per namespace basis. For more information on coprocessor endpoints, see the coprocessor section of the HBase online manual. For more information on granting or revoking permissions using the AccessController, see the security section of the HBase online manual.

Default. false

hbase.procedure.regionserver.classes

A comma-separated list of org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure.RegionServerProcedureManager procedure managers that are loaded by default on the active HRegionServer process. The lifecycle methods (init/start/stop) will be called by the active HRegionServer process to perform the specific globally barriered procedure. After implementing your own RegionServerProcedureManager, just put it in HBase's classpath and add the fully qualified class name here.

Default. 

hbase.procedure.master.classes

A comma-separated list of org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure.MasterProcedureManager procedure managers that are loaded by default on the active HMaster process. A procedure is identified by its signature and users can use the signature and an instant name to trigger an execution of a globally barriered procedure. After implementing your own MasterProcedureManager, just put it in HBase's classpath and add the fully qualified class name here.

Default. 

hbase.security.visibility.mutations.checkauths

This property if enabled, will check whether the labels in the visibility expression are associated with the user issuing the mutation

Default. false