On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Vaibhav Puranik <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any way to get the columns in the sorted order of its values?
Not by value. We > want to get the first few columns only evertime we scan the table. Sorted by value? HBase orders by row, family, qualifier. Could you put the value into the qualifiier as a qualifier prefix and then hbase will take of the sort for you. > The rest of the data needs to be accessed occasionally. We want to avoid > getting it shipped to the client as it makes our map reduce job go out of > memory. > You are not using incremental get on a row? You should be able to get your big rows piecemeal. Good on you Vaibhav, St.Ack
