Per... http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#supported.datatypes ... you could store an XML file in HBase as a single value, but the responsibility of parsing the XML an interpreting it is entirely yours.
-----Original Message----- From: James Ram [mailto:hbas...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:51 AM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: using HBase to read from xml files in HDFS Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to put xml files in hdfs and have hbase pull out the data in those xml files. We are thinking of a situation where the xml files will have elements corresponding to the columns in hbase. So ideally hbase should be able to pull the data corresponding to the columns from the xml files automatically. -- With Regards, Jr.
