On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Tim Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > From the limitations you mention, 1) and 2) we can live with, but 3) > could be why my quick tests are already giving incorrect record > counts. That sounds like a show stopper straight away right? >
So Tim, you are going against the hfiles directly and not via the HBase API? If so, you'll need to do a merge read of the multiple hfiles like hbase does (as per Amandeep). You need this facility? > One option for us would be HBase for the primary store for random > access, and periodic (e.g. 12 hourly) exports to HDFS for all the full > scanning. Would you consider that sane? > You are not getting good scan performance from hbase Tim? St.Ack
