You could use an integer for the same purpose.
On 8/1/11 5:26 PM, "Ted Yu" <[email protected]> wrote: >I am not aware of plan to implement this. > >Cheers > >On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Ioan Eugen Stan ><[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Is there any way to set/test for a bit flag in HBase? I looked over >> BitComparator but that it only compares. It should be usefull when you >> have a predefined set of flags. I know HBase is used for large data >> and this would seem as an overkill, but storing a (meaningfull) column >> name for each flag is a bigger waste considering that column names are >> saved for each row. >> >> I checked the docs and there doesn't seem to be such a feature, but is >> there a plan/ way to implement it? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Ioan Eugen Stan >> http://ieugen.blogspot.com/ >>
