I think a more efficient way is to use geohash as rowkey. And scan the hbase with start row and end row. May be this example<https://github.com/hbaseinaction/gis>could give you some idea.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Kristopher Kane <[email protected]>wrote: > I have two qualifiers that contain latitude and longitude longs. I wish to > write a filter comparator that will look at these two qualifiers and > determine if they exist within a supplied bounding box. - This will compare > four longs passed in as min/max values against what is found in the > qualifiers. > > Looking at the built-in comparators like RegexStringComparator and > BinaryComparator, it looks like I must extend ByteArrayComparable and then > create a ComparatorProtos for my custom comparator. > > I understand extending ByteArrayComparable but a custom ComparatorProtos to > facilitate ByteArrayComparable.parseFrom is a bit much to just look at a > couple of longs. > > Are the above steps the right approach to for this kind of work or am I > missing something? > > Thanks, > > -Kris > -- Best Regards, Haosdent Huang
