Hi there- You don't want a filter for this, use a Scan with the lead portion of the key.
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#datamodel See "5.7.3. Scans" On a related topic, this is a utility in process to make composite key construction easier. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7221 On 12/18/12 4:20 AM, "bigdata" <[email protected]> wrote: >Many articles tell me that MD5 rowkey or part of it is good method to >balance the records stored in different parts. But If I want to search >some sequential rowkey records, such as date as rowkey or partially. I >can not use rowkey filter to scan a range of date value one time on the >date by MD5. How to balance this issue? >Thanks. > >
