Just a quick heads-up. Ted pointed me to this jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5416 Max (the author) has confirmed that the patch provides what I want. :-)
On 2/15/12 1:57 PM, "Pan, Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Since Hbase is tailored to handle one table very well, we are thinking to >put multiple tables into one big table but on different column family >sets. Our use case is full table scan against single column value >filters. As records from different "logical tables" are at different >column families, could we speed up the scan performance by simply >checking the column family referenced by these single column value >filters first before really going through all the underlying K-V pairs? >It would be great if the Hbase code is already coded that way. > > >$0.02, >Thomas >
