Lars, I meant range of row keys. BinaryPrefixComparator can be used in conjunction with RowFilter to filter by prefix.
Alex 2012/2/9 lars hofhansl <[email protected]> > Note the BinaryPrefixComparator compares values (not keys). > Not sure that this is what you want, but you mention a "range of key". > > > For keys there are ColumnPrefixFilter and ColumnRangeFilter. > > > -- Lars > > > > ________________________________ > From: Alex Vasilenko <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:03 AM > Subject: row filter - binary comparator at certain range > > Hi all, > > I'm a brand new user of hbase and hadoop in general. Trying to evaluate > hbase for our needs. Question is: why there's BinaryPrefixComparator, but > no BinaryRangeComparator, where you specify what range of key should be > compared. Are there any concerns about using it? > > Thanks, > Alexandr Vasilenko >
