Are you using HFileOutputFormat.configureIncrementalLoad() to set up the partitioner and the reducers? That will take care of ordering your keys.
J-D On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Guillermo Ortiz <konstt2...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have been looking at the code in HBase, but, I don't really understand > what this error happens. Why can I put in HBase those keys? > > > 2014-04-30 17:57 GMT+02:00 Guillermo Ortiz > <konstt2...@gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','konstt2...@gmail.com > ');> > >: > > > I'm using HBase with MapReduce to load a lot of data, so I have decide to > > do it with bulk load. > > > > > > I parse my keys with SHA1, but when I try to load them, I got this > > exception. > > > > java.io.IOException: Added a key not lexically larger than previous > key=\x00(6e9e59f36a7ec2ac54635b2d353e53e677839046\x01l\x00\x00\x01E\xB3>\xC9\xC7\x0E, > lastkey=\x00(b313a9f1f57c8a07c81dc3221c6151cf3637506a\x01l\x00\x00\x01E\xAE\x18k\x87\x0E > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.AbstractHFileWriter.checkKey(AbstractHFileWriter.java:207) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.HFileWriterV2.append(HFileWriterV2.java:324) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.HFileWriterV2.append(HFileWriterV2.java:289) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.StoreFile$Writer.append(StoreFile.java:1206) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.HFileOutputFormat$1.write(HFileOutputFormat.java:168) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.HFileOutputFormat$1.write(HFileOutputFormat.java:124) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask$NewTrackingRecordWriter.write(ReduceTask.java:551) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.TaskInputOutputContextImpl.write(TaskInputOutputContextImpl.java:85) > > > > I work with HBase 0.94.6. I have been loking for if I could define any > reducer, since, I have defined no one. I have read something about > KeyValueSortReducer but, I don'tknow if there's something that extends > TableReducer or I'm lookging for a wrong way. > > > > > > >