What is hotspotting in Hbase?

1.	What is hotspotting in Hbase?
Answer» Hotspotting is asituation when a large amount of client traffic is directed at one node, or only a few nodes, of a cluster. This traffic may represent reads, writes, or other operations. This traffic overwhelms the single machine responsible for hosting that region, causing performance degradation and potentially leading to region unavailability.

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