Specify only the row key in Get and use exists(Get g). This should solve your use case.
- Monish > On 03-Jun-2014, at 11:47 am, Rural Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > > I plan to use > HTable.exists(http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.html#exists%28org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get%29). > But it seems it is used to check a cell(column). Is there a better way to > just check if the row with specific key exists?
