Thanks, Jean-Daniel! On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]>wrote:
> Boris, > > There is a quicker way but since we currently don't keep a count > somewhere, it's always about doing a full table scan. > > See how the count is implemented in the shell to learn of the quicker > way. Specifically, look at bin/HBase.rb > > J-D > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boris Aleksandrovsky <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to retrieving the number of rows in the table without > doing a > > complete scan and counting the number of returned results (via next())? > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > > > Boris > > > -- Thanks, Boris http://twitter.com/baleksan http://www.linkedin.com/in/baleksan
