For filtering rows based on column key ( i hope that's what you asked), there is no direct filter as far as i know. But i think you can use "ColumnPrefixFilter" which selects only those keys whose column name matches a particular prefix (some sort of substring matching using regex).
./Zahoor HBase Musings On 21-Aug-2012, at 3:27 PM, Shagun Agarwal <sha...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Hi, > > There is SubstringComparator which can be used with SingleColumnValueFilter > for substring filter however this works for key value. Is there any way to do > a substring filtering for column key? > > Thanks > Shagun
