Hi there- Might want to start with thisŠ
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#perf.reading Š if you're using default scan caching (which is 1) that would explain a lot. On 10/1/12 7:01 PM, "Juan P." <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi guys, >I'm trying to get familiarized with HBase and one thing I noticed is that >reads seem to very slow. I just tried doing a "scan 'my_table'" to get >120K >records and it took about 50 seconds to print it all out. > >In contrast "hadoop fs -cat my_file.csv" where my_file.csv has 120K lines >completed in under a second. > >Is that possible? Am I missing something about HBase reads? > >Thanks, >Joni
