Please also refer to Mikhail's presentation last night (Optimizing_HBase_scanner_performance.pptx): http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/files/
Cheers On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
