Just in case if there are other characters which fall after ~. We were using 'z' before. Then we realized we had some special characters in keys. So we updated it to ~. Does HBase support characters > ~ in row keys?
hari On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Suraj Varma <[email protected]> wrote: > Why did you feel this is error prone? > If you use server side filters by providing start/end Row or use a > PrefixFilter, the scans should work well, as it is going to be > sequential access. Depending on your data and use case, you may need > to tune it further (say by applying additional filters, limit results, > etc)... see here for some more tips on speeding up scans: > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/Troubleshooting#A16 > > --Suraj > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Hari Sreekumar > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to scan rows which have rowskey starting with a particular string > > (say abc). I am currently doing this by using startrow=abc and > endrow=abc~. > > (I am appending ~ as it is ASCII 126). It usually works, but is there a > > better, less error prone way? I know we can do this using filters, but > won't > > that be worse performance-wise? > > > > Thanks, > > Hari > > >
