In Nishanth's case, the 5K message is stored in one KeyValue, right ? If only the first 1000 Characters of this message are to be returned, a new KeyValue needs to be composed and returned.
Cheers On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Dima Spivak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nishanth, > > Take a look at http://hbase.apache.org/book/client.filter.html . If I > understand your use case correctly, you might want to look at > RegexStringComparator to match the first 1000 characters of your column > qualifier. > > -Dima > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Nishanth S <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have an hbase table with multiple cfs (say c1,c2,c3).Each of this > column > > family has a column 'message' which is about 5K.What I need to do is to > > grab only the first 1000 Characters of this message when I do a get on > the > > table using row Key.I was thinking of using filters to do this on hbase > > sever side.Can some one help me on how to go about this. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Nishan > > >
