What Michael said. Run the rowcounter M/R job:
Type: ./bin/hadoop jar hbase.jar ... to learn more, read http://hbase.apache.org/docs/r0.89.20100924/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/package-summary.html#package_description St.Ack On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Michael Segel <[email protected]> wrote: > > The quickest way is a m/r job. > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:02:44 -0800 >> Subject: Quick way to find the number of rows in a Table >> >> Hi >> I am going to have a process running that will add rows to a table. The >> row id is just a counter of the number of rows inserted. Is there a quick >> way to programmatically find out the number of rows in a table so when I >> start adding rows the count isn't disrupted? Also, is there a better way to >> assign a row Id? >> >> Thanks >> >> -Pete >
