I found excellent answer, http://prafull-blog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/how-to-calculate-record-size-of-hba se.html
Quote: "So to calculate the record size: Fixed part needed by KeyValue format = Key Length + Value Length + Row Length + CF Length + Timestamp + Key Value = ( 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 8 + 1) = 20 Bytes Variable part needed by KeyValue format = Row + Column Family + Column Qualifier + Value" Thanks, Fuad On 12-10-01 9:50 AM, "Fuad Efendi" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >Is column qualifier physically stored in a Cell? Or pointer to it? Do we >need to care about long size such as >my_very_long_qualifier:1 > >(size of a value is small in comparison to size of qualifier?) > >thanks > >
