> 1) As I understand column family internally represents a file , but in my > case I enter nothing to the column family ( actually I enter empty > qualifier:value pairs). > I can't find any details about how rowkeys is stores. Any information > about storing rowkeys will be very helpful.
Right now a key in hbase is row_key+family+qualifier+timestamp, as long as you have that you can store 0 byte values and you're all fine. But you can't just store a row key, it doesn't stand alone. > 2) Does rowkey only table solution scale? Has this solution any > limitation regarding scans (for example if I want to scan all rows which > rowkey starts with "abc") ? That still works even you store "nothing" in the cell. J-D
