Re: Partitioning an external hbase table

2013-05-16 Thread kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com
Unfortunately I don't think there is a clean way to achieve that (atleast not one that I know of). Your option at this point is to run your queries with a WHERE clause so that the predicate behind the scenes gets converted to a range scan and restricts the amount of data that is being getting

Partitioning an external hbase table

2013-05-15 Thread MailingList
Is it possible to define partitions for a external table backed by Hbase? If so what is the proper syntax? I already have an external table backed by base and I'm finding that for even simple SELECT queries the load isn't getting evenly distributed a across the map tasks. Some tasks see as