Thanks J-D, that sounds annoying. Should the row count be a piece of meta data?
How does a RDBMS do when one types "selct count(xxx) from xxx"?

> Zhao,
> 
> Yes, the only way is to use a scanner but it will take a _long_ time. HBASE-32
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-32>is about adding a row count
> estimator. For those who want to know why it's so slow, having a scanner
> that goes on each row of a table requires doing a read request on disk for
> each one of them (except for the stuff in the memcache that waits to be
> flushed). If you have 6 500 000 rows like I saw last week on the IRC
> channel, i may take well over 80 minutes (it depends on the cpu/io/network
> load, hardware, etc).
> 
> J-D
> 
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:21 AM, ZhaoWei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi J-D,
> >  How to get row count of a table, only scanner?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > > Daniel,
> > >
> > > Sorry, this feature is still missing in HBase. For the moment, the best
> > you
> > > can do is to use HDFS web UI. If you would like to this in a future
> > release,
> > > feel free to fill a Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE
> > >
> > > J-D
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > hi all,
> > > >    it's a bit strange, but i cant find some class or method to get the
> > > > 'size' of a created table - maybe the total size of all the HStores ?
> > > > or is there any command in HQL can do this?
> > > >    Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Daniel
> > > >
> >

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