There is no secondary index support in HBase at the moment. It's on our road map.
FYI On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Bing Li <[email protected]> wrote: > Jacques, > > Yes. But I still have questions about that. > > In my system, when users search with a keyword arbitrarily, the query is > forwarded to Solr. No any updating operations but appending new indexes > exist in Solr managed data. > > When I need to retrieve data based on ranking values, HBase is used. And, > the ranking values need to be updated all the time. > > Is that correct? > > My question is that the performance must be low if keeping consistency in a > large scale distributed environment. How does HBase handle this issue? > > Thanks so much! > > Bing > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Jacques <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It is highly unlikely that you could replace Solr with HBase. They're > > really apples and oranges. > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Bing Li <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I wonder how data in HBase is indexed? Now Solr is used in my system > >> because data is managed in inverted index. Such an index is suitable to > >> retrieve unstructured and huge amount of data. How does HBase deal with > >> the > >> issue? May I replaced Solr with HBase? > >> > >> Thanks so much! > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Bing > >> > > > > >
