Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
Hypertable stores data in a table, sorted by a primary key. There is no typing for data in the cells, all data is stored as uninterpreted byte strings. Scaling is achieved by breaking tables in contiguous ranges and splitting them up to different physical machines. There are two types of servers in a Hypertable cluster, Range Servers which hold a piece (or range) of the data and Master Servers which handle administrative tasks and oversee the Range Servers. A single physical machine can run both a Range Server and Master Server process. A single Range Server may hold many discontinuous ranges, the Master Server is responsible for farming them out in an intelligent way. If a single range fills up, the range is split in half and reallocated. The top half of the range remains and the lower half is reassined to a new Range Server by the master. The default maximum range size is 200MB. If an entire Range Server fills up, the Master migrates ranges from the filled server to less full ones. T