Hi Rakhi,
The way the filters work is that you either use the supplied filters or
create your own subclasses - but then you will have to deploy that class
to all RegionServers while adding it to their respective hbase-env.sh
(in the "export HBASE_CLASSPATH" variable). We are discussing currently
if this could be done dynamically
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1288).
Once you have that done or use one of the supplied one then you can
assign the filter by overriding the TableInputFormat's configure()
method and assign it like so:
public void configure(JobConf job) {
RegExpRowFilter filter = new RegExpRowFilter("ABC.*");
setRowFilter(filter);
}
As Tim points out, setting the whole thing up is done in your main M/R
tool based application, similar to:
JobConf job = new JobConf(...);
TableMapReduceUtil.initTableMapJob("<table-name>", "<colums>",
IdentityTableMap.class,
ImmutableBytesWritable.class, RowResult.class, job);
job.setReducerClass(MyTableReduce.class);
job.setInputFormat(MyTableInputFormat.class);
job.setOutputFormat(MyTableOutputFormat.class);
Of course depending on what classes you want to replace or if this is a
Reduce oriented job (means a default identity + filter map and all the
work done in the Reduce phase) or the other way around. But the
principles and filtering are the same.
HTH,
Lars
Rakhi Khatwani wrote:
Thanks Ryan, i will try that
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> wrote:
there is a server-side mechanism to filter rows, it's found in the
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter package. im not sure how this interops with
the TableInputFormat exactly.
setting a filter to reduce the # of rows returned is pretty much exactly
what you want.
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Rakhi Khatwani <[email protected]
wrote:
Hi,
i have a map reduce program with which i read from a hbase table.
In my map program i check if the column value of a is xxx, if yes then
continue with processing else skip it.
however if my table is really big, most of my time in the map gets wasted
for processing unwanted rows.
is there any way through which we could send a subset of rows (based on
the
value of a particular column family) to the map???
i have also gone through TableInputFormatBase but am not able to figure
out
how do we set the input format if we are using TableMapReduceUtil class
to
initialize table map jobs. or is there any other way i could use it.
Thanks in Advance,
Raakhi.
