When working with YugabyteDB, it is often useful to see how tablets are distributed across nodes. Two especially helpful questions are: ● […]
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Demonstrating Hot Shard Detection (and Why a Tablet Can Refuse to Split)
You may see a tablet growing large and repeatedly attempting to split… only to fail with errors like: TABLET_SPLIT_KEY_RANGE_TOO_SMALL Failed to detect […]
Read MoreVisualizing Tablet Distribution with Real Row Counts in YugabyteDB
TL;DR This tip introduces yb-topology-viewer, a lightweight demo application that helps you visualize how data is actually distributed across a YugabyteDB cluster […]
Read MoreExploring Tablet Distribution and Leader Placement in YugabyteDB
TL;DR YugabyteDB splits hash-sharded tables into tablets using a deterministic hash space, replicates each tablet across nodes, and places leaders according to […]
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