Stack, Incremental sounds good, how do you do that, can you please point to a method/class? I only saw methods to get the entire family map.
Also is there any way to specify qualifier sort type - ascending or descending? Regards, Vaibhav On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
