Jack, you can use filters on Get's too..
------------------------------ On Fri 25 May, 2012 5:36 AM IST jack chrispoo wrote: >Hi, > >I'm new to HBase and I have a question about using filters. I know that I >can use filters with scan, say scan start-key=key1 & end-key=key2 and with >a SingleColumnValueFilter: columnA=valueA. But in my java program I need to >do filtering on a set of rows which are not contiguous, my client needs to >get all rows with rowid in a set<String> and with columnA=valueA. I don't >know how this can be done efficiently. I can imagine that I can do a scan >of the entire table and set filers rowid=... and columnA=valueA; or I can >use get function to get the rows with rowid in my set all to my client and >do the filtering on my client side. But I think neither way is efficient. >Can anyone give me a hint on this? > >Thanks >Yixiao
