Hi Yanlin, If you are doing reads. You can use a view. For writes, i dont think Phoenix provides anything for aliasing column names. It would be good if we have this feature because using short column names is a common thing in HBase.
Thanks, Anil Gupta On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:19 PM, yanlin wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Usually one method to reduce IO in hbase is to reduce the size of column > qualifier’s length and use a dictionary to map the application column name > to the actual column qualifier. Kiji schema project is doing exactly that. > Is there any column name encoding support in Phoenix? if no, any plan to do > that? Another option is that we can create phoenix table on top of kiji > table, but kiji has its own column serializer which is based on avro and > the Phoenix client needs to be modified to do the custom deserialization > and mapping etc. The last resort will be putting these column name mapping > biz into application DAO layer. Do you have any suggestion? > > Thx, > Yanlin -- Thanks & Regards, Anil Gupta
