I think the shell just performs a scan and iterates over all the rows, counting as it goes. You could do the same with the client API...
2010/1/28 john smith <[email protected]> > Hi guys, > > Is there a way to get the rowcount of the table from java API .. I looked > at > HTable and HTableDesc... but I couldn't find it .. It is similar to "count > <tablename>" frm Hbase shell. > > Thanks > J-S >
