Re: [geomesa-users] Geohashing vs R-tree

[Luca Morandini <luca.morandini1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/05/15 08:49, Jim Hughes wrote:
> I'd agree more or less.  When Accumulo splits a tablet, that is basically
> rebalancing in terms of the B^+ tree structure being used/presented.

What if you were to shard by prefixing an evenly-distributed string to the 
geohash? This would avoid rebalancing, would it not?

Regards,

Luca Morandini
Data Architect - AURIN project
Melbourne eResearch Group
Department of Computing and Information Systems
University of Melbourne
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