Hi there- You probably want to review this part of the hbase book...
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#perf.reading On 8/15/11 4:15 AM, "Andrey Gomzin" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi! >I use HBase in a single-node mode. My rows in the table are huge. I have >to >read sequentially all columns in all rows using Java API. But Get and Scan >operations return entire row (which results contains of ALL columns from >the >row). A lot of RAM is required. So, what should I do in case of some rows >are above available RAM? Is it possible to read columns sequentially one >by >one?
