Thanks Dhaval, and is there a way to get multiple rows (their keys not contiguous) from HBase server with only one request? it seems to me it's expensive to send one get request for each one row.
jack On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dhaval Shah <prince_mithi...@yahoo.co.in>wrote: > > 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 > >
