Please take a look at http://hbase.apache.org/0.94/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/filter/FuzzyRowFilter.html
Cheers On Jan 14, 2014, at 10:16 PM, Ramon Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks > > We have a table with fixed pattern row key design, the format for the row > key is YEAR_COUNTRY_randomNumber, for example: > > 20140101_EN_1 > 20140101_EN_2 > 20140101_EN_3 > 20140101_US_1 > 20140101_US_2 > 20140101_US_3 > ... > > Is there a way i can quickly get the data for "20140101_EN_*" by using Scan > without scan the full table? I think we are probably going to use > the PrefixFilter filter with the Scan object, but the problem is that we > don't know the "startRow" for each scan, any ideas? > > Thanks > Ramon
