Hello - I'm using HBase for web server log processing and I'm trying to save the top N urls per category per day in a sorted manner in HBase. From what I've read, the only sortable structure that HBase offers is the lexicographic sort in the row keys. So, here is the rowkey format I'm currently using <date>|<category>|<padded_visits>|<url> where, padded_visits = Long.MAX_VALUE - visits
This seems wasteful because of the long rowkeys. Is there any other approach to maintain sorted results in HBase? Thanks Hari Prasanna
