Get is internally treated very similar to SCANs in the RS. So this is expected.
./Zahoor HBase Musings On 29-Aug-2012, at 9:15 PM, Ferdy Galema <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >>
