Thanks guessed that as well. Guess i need to treat Hbase as a distributed sorted map then.
Kindly //Marcus On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus, > > The one thing you misunderstood is that the row key is not a column and I > guess this is caused by a RDBMS background ;) The reason why you want to > store reverted urls is that you want to have a fast scanner e.g. if you > fetch 30 lines and they are distributed on 30 different machines, the > performance will suffer. To search on column families, you have to build > search tables using MapReduce or use external indexes that I guess are > familiar for you. > > Hope it helps, > > J-D > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Marcus Herou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi guys. > > > > A simple question: Is only the row key sorted in HBase ? > > > > What if you would like to obtain a scanner based on another column ? I > > thought the "auto" sorted feature was one of the reasons you would like > to > > store for example urls in a reverted manner. > > > > Have I misunderstood something ? > > > > We did choose Hbase as our db for storage of a billion urls but not being > > able to search efficiently makes the choice harder... > > > > Kindly > > > > //Marcus > > > > -- > > Marcus Herou CTO and co-founder Tailsweep AB > > +46702561312 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.tailsweep.com/ > > http://blogg.tailsweep.com/ > > > -- Marcus Herou CTO and co-founder Tailsweep AB +46702561312 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tailsweep.com/ http://blogg.tailsweep.com/
