You can specify the column family or column to read when you create the Scan object. Have you tried that? Does it make sense? Or I misunderstood your problem?
http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Scan.html#addColumn(byte[],%20byte[]) http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Scan.html#addFamily(byte[]) Regards, Shahab On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Webb, Ryan L. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We have a table in HBase that has very large rows and it goes OOM when the > table mapper attempts to read the entire row into a result. > > We would like to be able to map over each Cell in the table as a solution > and it is what we are doing in the map anyway. > Is this possible? Like the default behavior for Accumulo? > > We looked at the settings on Scan and didn't really see anything and the > source code of Result looks like it wraps an array of cells so the data is > already loaded at that point. > We are using HBase .98.1 and Hadoop 2 APIs > > Thanks > Ryan Webb > > PS - Sorry if this is a duplicate, I sent the first one before subscribing > so I don't know what the policy is with that. >
