Re: Couting number of records in a HBase table

[James Taylor]

Another option is Phoenix (https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix), 
where you'd do
    SELECT count(*) FROM my_table

Regards,
James
On 05/28/2013 03:25 PM, Ted Yu wrote:
Take a look at http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#rowcounter

Cheers

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com>wrote:

Is there a faster way to get the count of rows in a HBase table
(potentially a huge one)? I am looking for ways other than the 'count'
shell command or any Pig script? Thanks.

Regards,
Shahab