Thanks Lars On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Lars Francke <lars.fran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank You for quick reply, but I'm not talking about row key, but about > > column qualifier (column key). > > Oh! I'm sorry - must have misread that. > > The answer is unfortunately the same. It is not possible to do > something like that in the get operation. With the addColumn function > you have to add the specific qualifier you're looking for and in the > result you can only iterate over every column qualifier to see if it > matches. > > But you can use a scan here too as there is a filter that filters > based on column qualifiers[1]. I can't say what the best solution for > your specific problem is though. > > Hope that helps. > > Lars > > [1] < > http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/docs/r0.20.3/api/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/filter/QualifierFilter.html > > >
