this is the use case for Bloom filters, isn't it? GETting rows when you're not sure they exist
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:09 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
