Re: Sorted columns

2008-07-14 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
Well in fact it's a "sparse, distributed, persistent multidimensional sorted map". J-D On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Marcus Herou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks guessed that as well. > > Guess i need to treat Hbase as a distributed sorted map then. > > Kindly > > //Marcus > > On Mon, Jul

Re: Sorted columns

2008-07-14 Thread Marcus Herou
Thanks guessed that as well. Guess i need to treat Hbase as a distributed sorted map then. Kindly //Marcus On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcus, > > The one thing you misunderstood is that the row key is not a column and I > guess this is caus

Re: Sorted columns

2008-07-14 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
Marcus, The one thing you misunderstood is that the row key is not a column and I guess this is caused by a RDBMS background ;) The reason why you want to store reverted urls is that you want to have a fast scanner e.g. if you fetch 30 lines and they are distributed on 30 different machines, the p

Sorted columns

2008-07-14 Thread Marcus Herou
Hi guys. A simple question: Is only the row key sorted in HBase ? What if you would like to obtain a scanner based on another column ? I thought the "auto" sorted feature was one of the reasons you would like to store for example urls in a reverted manner. Have I misunderstood something ? We di