Re: Running prefix scans in hbase

2013-05-15 Thread Varun Sharma
Not after but only before hitting the prefix - I will check the startRow stuff - I could not find where the seek happens for that... On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Stack wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Varun Sharma > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I was looking at PrefixFilter but going

Re: Running prefix scans in hbase

2013-05-15 Thread Stack
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Varun Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at PrefixFilter but going by the implementation - it looks we > scan every row until we hit the prefix instead of seeking to the row with > the required prefix. > > I was wondering if there are more efficient alternativ

Re: Running prefix scans in hbase

2013-05-15 Thread Stack
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Varun Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at PrefixFilter but going by the implementation - it looks we > scan every row until we hit the prefix instead of seeking to the row with > the required prefix. > > I was wondering if there are more efficient alternativ

Running prefix scans in hbase

2013-05-14 Thread Varun Sharma
Hi, I was looking at PrefixFilter but going by the implementation - it looks we scan every row until we hit the prefix instead of seeking to the row with the required prefix. I was wondering if there are more efficient alternatives which would do a real seek rather than scanning all rows. Would s