Are these 120K rows from a single region server? On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Juan P. <gordoslo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, > I'm trying to get familiarized with HBase and one thing I noticed is that > reads seem to very slow. I just tried doing a "scan 'my_table'" to get 120K > records and it took about 50 seconds to print it all out. > > In contrast "hadoop fs -cat my_file.csv" where my_file.csv has 120K lines > completed in under a second. > > Is that possible? Am I missing something about HBase reads? > > Thanks, > Joni >