Ran some tests and it seems that single-use Scanner requests are not that bad after all. I guess the important part is to set row caching to 1 and correctly close every scanner afterwards.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Ferdy Galema <[email protected]>wrote: > I want to do a lot of random reads, but I need to get the first row after > the requested key. I know I can make a scanner every time (with a specified > startrow) and close it after a single result is fetched, but this seems > like a lot overhead. > > Something like HTable's getRowOrBefore method, but then getRowOrAfter. > (Note that getRowOrBefore is deprecated). > > Any advice? >
