Yes it is possible. if you just want one row though, you would use the hbase client package and do a simple Get.
Have a read of http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HbaseArchitecture http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html 2009/8/11 Alex Spodinets <spodin...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > Is it possible to run a Map\Reduce job for only one row in table? Thus > skipping the unnecessary cycling through other rows by ignoring them > manually or via "skip mode". > > > The idea behind it is to use Map\Reduce more like an application server with > data location awareness vs batch\parallel processing system. > > Thanks. >
