HBase row key design for monotonically increasing keys

Question

I\'ve an HBase table where I\'m writing the row keys like:

~1
~2
~3
...
~9
~10

Answer 1

monotonically increasing keys isnt a good schema for hbase. you can read more here: http://hbase.apache.org/book/rowkey.design.html

there also a link there to OpenTSDB that solve this problem.