Re: using HBase to read from xml files in HDFS

2011-06-05 Thread James Ram
Hi, Forgive me, but I am not much experienced in HBase. Would you please elaborate on how to do this? Thanks, JR On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Michel Segel wrote: > James, yes you can do it. > You need to write your own input format to split each input on a specified > tag boundary. > > Sent

Re: using HBase to read from xml files in HDFS

2011-06-03 Thread Michel Segel
James, yes you can do it. You need to write your own input format to split each input on a specified tag boundary. Sent from a remote device. Please excuse any typos... Mike Segel On Jun 3, 2011, at 6:50 AM, James Ram wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if it's possible to put xml files in

RE: using HBase to read from xml files in HDFS

2011-06-03 Thread Doug Meil
Per... http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#supported.datatypes ... you could store an XML file in HBase as a single value, but the responsibility of parsing the XML an interpreting it is entirely yours. -Original Message- From: James Ram [mailto:hbas...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 03,