Hi Peter, You can set the start row to '20101201|14' and the end row to '20101201|15' using the scanner API: http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/hbase/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Scan.html#setStartRow(byte[])
<http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/hbase/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Scan.html#setStartRow(byte[])> Thanks -Todd On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Peter Haidinyak <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > I have to enter log data into HBase. We will need to query the data by > Date:Hour > I am using the 'Date|Hour|Incrementing Counter' as the Row Id. Is there an > easy was to request the starting and stopping rows in a scan using some > similar to 'like'? > > Scan 'T1', {STARTROW=>'like 20101201|14'} > > If not, what would be the best way to retrieve only one hour's worth of > data? I am thinking of using another table to hold the incrementing count > information for a Date|Hour and use that for Start/Stop. > > Thanks > > -Pete > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
