I think topic starter prefers something like: "select count(*) from table" and not to launch M/R job for this purpose.
Best regards, Vladimir Rodionov Principal Platform Engineer Carrier IQ, www.carrieriq.com ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jean-Daniel Cryans [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: count of rows in table In 0.89 you can specify CACHE for the count command. Set it higher (it defaults to 10 rows per call). Also you can use the RowCounter MR job. J-D On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > The count method in HBase shell is quite slow. > Is there a way to obtain count faster ? > > Thanks >
