On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Mikael Sitruk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I would like to know if it is possible to retrieve the columns name and not > the whole content of rows. > The reason for such request is that the columns store high volumn of data > (2K) each (and i store 900 columns per key). > Retrieving the whole row and not the "Description/Metadata" of the row is > in this case very expensive. >
Will http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/filter/KeyOnlyFilter.html work for you? St.Ack
