Very simple to check this through hbase shell; its Option II since HFile storage is driven by HBase and not Phoenix.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Krishna <research...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > If a table has following data: > ---------------------------------------------- > RowKey | cf.a | cf.b | cf.c > ---------------------------------------------- > RowKey1 | abc | <null> | 123 > RowKey2 | abc | def | <null> > ---------------------------------------------- > > How is data stored in HFiles for the table above (assuming I did not > upsert null values for cf.b and cf.c) ? Is it Option-I or Option-II? > > *Option-I:* > RowKey1, cf.a, 'abc' > RowKey1, cf.b, <null> > RowKey1, cf.c, '123' > RowKey1, 0, <null> > RowKey2, cf.a, 'abc' > RowKey2, cf.b, 'def' > RowKey2, cf.c, <null> > RowKey2, 0, <null> > > *Option-II:* > RowKey1, cf.a, 'abc' > RowKey1, cf.c, '123' > RowKey1, 0, <null> > RowKey2, cf.a, 'abc' > RowKey2, cf.b, 'def' > RowKey2, 0, <null> > > Thanks > >
