On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Kevin <kevin.macksa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am curious and trying to learn which method is best when wanting to limit > a scan to a particular column or column family. The Scan class carries a > Filter instance and a TreeMap of the family map and I am unsure how they > get carried through to the server-side functionality. In terms of > performance is there any difference between doing Scan.addFamily(x) and > Scan.setFilter(new FamilyFilter(CompareFilter.CompareOp.EQUAL, x)? >
There is probably not noticeable difference in performance but Scan#addFamily is the more natural way of expressing column family scoping. St.Ack
