In order to delete a row in HBase you need to know that it exists, so the way I'd go around this is running a MR job that scans and for each row that matches the filter would emit a Delete.
Hope this helps, J-D On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Oleg Ruchovets <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi , > I need to delete rows from hbase table by criteria. > For example I need to delete all rows started with "12345". > I didn't find a way to set a row prefix for delete operation. > What is the best way ( practice ) to delete rows by criteria from hbase > table? > > Thanks in advance. > Oleg.
