Check out the org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter package. The ColumnValueFilter might be of help specifically.
The other solution is to do it client side. -ryan On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Vincent Poon (vinpoon) <vinp...@cisco.com>wrote: > Say I want to scan down a table that looks like this: > > Col A Col B > row1 x x > row2 x > row3 x x > > Normally a scanner would return all three rows, but what's the best way > to scan so that only row1 and row3 are returned? i.e. only the rows > with data in both columns. > > Thanks, > Vincent >