Have you looked at any of the source code?
On 6/6/12 10:35 AM, "S Ahmed" <[email protected]> wrote: >From what I understand each column family has its own file(s). > >When hbase lookups a cell in a column family, how does it perform the >lookup? Is there an index on the file, or is it ordered? >What algorithm is used? >Does it load the entire column family file in memory, or scan it? > >I know the actual rows are ordered lexically, is it the same for column >family qualifiers? > >If someone could also point me to the relevant files that would be great.
