On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Praveen Sripati <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > Each HFile has multiple Data Blocks and each block has multiple K/V pairs. > So, effectively a given HFile has many K/V pairs. When a client searches > for a particular row, is the entire HFile scanned for data or some sort of > index is maintained in the HFile? Also, is the data sorted in HFile? > > See http://hbase.apache.org/book/hfilev2.html St.Ack
