On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Pamecha, Abhishek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I probably know the usual answer but are there any tricks to do some sort of > sort by value in HBase. The only option I know is to somehow embed value in > the key part. The value is not a timestamp but a normal number. > > I want to find out, say, top 10 from a range of columns. The range could be > millions of columns. The range is dynamic for the most part. > > Any pointers? >
HBase sorts by rows and then within a row by column family, column qualifier, type, then timestamp. You cannot have it natively sort values for you, not unless you make the values be rows and/or columns in another, separate table. St.Ack
