Use scan where start key is <first_half_of_key> itself as bytearray, and stop key is <first_half_of_key> with last byte in bytearray + 1.
example abc% should be scan(abc, abd) 2010/8/17 Michelan Arendse <[email protected]>: > Hi > > I am not sure if this is possible in HBase. What I am trying to do is scan on > a HBase table with something similar to how SQL would do it. > e.g. SELECT * > FROM <table> > WHERE <primary key> LIKE '<first_half_of_key>%' ; > > So as you can see from above I want to scan the table with only part of the > row key, since the key is a combination of 2 fields in the table. > > Regards, > Michelan Arendse > > >
