Re: Setting and using cell timestamp values to retrieve data

2012-10-09 Thread kiran
Hi Usman I am going through the same thing. Unless you have a reason to use wide rows (e.g. you need atomic updates on multiple points within one row) I recommend using a tall table, since large rows will become unmanageable, especially if they keep growing forever (and HBase cannot

Re: Setting and using cell timestamp values to retrieve data

2011-03-02 Thread Usman Waheed
I want to do this so i can use the timestamp attribute for a cell as a search criteria over my data which is inside a daily table. The daily table starts from lets say Jan 1st 2010 onwards and I plan to have 10 column families. So i have to populate for past dates with the prior daily

Re: Setting and using cell timestamp values to retrieve data

2011-03-02 Thread tsuna
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Usman Waheed usm...@opera.com wrote: I want to do this so i can use the timestamp attribute for a cell as a search criteria over my data which is inside a daily table. Reminder: the timestamp should be in milliseconds. If you store a timestamp in seconds, I'm

Re: Setting and using cell timestamp values to retrieve data

2011-03-02 Thread Usman Waheed
Hi, Please see my comments inline and Thanks for the tips. They were very helpful in getting a better understanding of Hbase and schema design. Regards, Usman On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Usman Waheed usm...@opera.com wrote: I want to do this so i can use the timestamp attribute for a

Re: Setting and using cell timestamp values to retrieve data

2011-03-01 Thread Stack
Why do you need to specify the timestamp? Why not let the server do it? Otherwise, the below should work for all but the case where many clients writing from different machines with unsync'd clocks. St.Ack On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Usman Waheed usm...@opera.com wrote: Hi, I have a