That, or use the "count" command in the shell if your table is on the small side.
J-D On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:49 PM, shashwat shriparv <[email protected]> wrote: > What i found out are as follows: > > 12.1.8. RowCounter > > RowCounter is a utility that will count all the rows of a table. This is a > good utility to use as a sanity check to ensure that HBase can read all the > blocks of a table if there are any concerns of metadata inconsistency. > > $ bin/hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.RowCounter <tablename> > [<column1> <column2>...] > > Note: caching for the input Scan is configured via > hbase.client.scanner.caching in the job configuration. > > > ------ > > http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/filter/FirstKeyOnlyFilter.html > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.hadoop.hbase.user/18124 > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:57 AM, illuvatar > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Hi everyone, i have a problem. >> I'm trying to count for java the number of row in a table, but i can't do >> it!! >> I read about rowCounter, but i can't use it. Some one can tell me the code >> i >> have to write to count the row in a table?? >> Thanks!! >> Andrea. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://old.nabble.com/count-the-rows-in-a-table-from-java-tp33203283p33203283.html >> Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > > -- > Shashwat Shriparv
