hey, That isn't how hbase (or even rdbms) work. Instead you can retrieve rows based on their row key. Otherwise you will have to read the entire table to find just that 1 row. Yes this is as inefficient as it sounds.
If you frequently have this issue, you may need to build and maintain secondary indexes. Unlike relational dbs, there is no built in support for this, you have to write your app to handle this. -yran On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:51 PM, lei wang<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, if a know a cell in a hbase for its column:<qualifer>:value, i need to > know which row key it belongs to. I searched the HBase api several times, > but i can not find the right method to solve my problem. Thanks for one's > suggestion to me. >
