You're correct. Unfortunately this is not yet possible, as far as I know. If you have a need for it, all contributions are welcome! :)
-----Original Message----- From: Dingding Ye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Possible to paginate the cells in row? Thanks for the comment. On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is not currently a way to page/scan/iterate through an individual > column family, though this can certainly be emulated in your client code. > > Part of the reason for that is that a single row, single family is stored > within a single file. So there would be no significant savings in only Got it. > > retrieving part of the family at a time (besides network traffic). yeah. But I think get parts of data at one time can save much memory usage in the client side. > > > Looking forward, once we have our own storage format, like TFile, we will > be > able to do real/optimized scanning through a family of columns by > retrieving > them in chunks rather than all at once. > > Support of millions of columns within a single row, single family is one of > the priorities but there are some other changes necessary before we can > really get there. > > > JG > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dingding Ye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Possible to paginate the cells in row? > > Is this an abuse way to use hbase? > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Dingding Ye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > There are many cells which shares the same column family in a row. I want > > to do the pagination, is it possible? > > Can i add the limit and offset options? > > > > I have used the scanner but it paginated based on the row which returns > the > > whole cells in the row. > > > > Thanks for the help. > > > > Best regards. > > > > sishen > > > >
