Hi experts,
I have a wide-flat table, and during scan, how can I limit columns returned by a single row, instead of all rows (what ColumnCountGetFilter does)? Because I need to scan multiple rows at the same time, and in client side to do aggregation. Put more background, I am designing an auditing tools, which records pattern of “(who) operates against (what) at (when)”. The search pattern is like, given time range from "2014/6/14 13:45" to "2014/6/24 7:15", list all files (what part, start-with search) be operated in DESC order of (when). I have tens of millions of records per day, and keep them 30 - 90 days. So I am thinking about two designs: a) rowkey as (file name)_(reverse of when), problem is that people want to use start-wth search to match multiple files, in this way, scan has to go thru all matches files, which could be huge and then client has to re-order them to display 500 records on top; It could be very slow; b) use wide-flat table, rowkey as (file_name)_(reverse of when (unit to day to partition)). qualifier is (reverse of when). This design can leverage the fact that qualifiers are in order to make fewer search than #a in my personal opinion. But I cannot put all operations on a single file in one row, because total number might exceeds multiple millions. So I am thinking of grouping data into the following shape by using #b. Then back to my original question, because I only need 500 records, if the row (file A)_(2014/06/14), contains more than that number, can I stop it and then continue to scan next row? And if I already get enough in (file A)_(2014/06/14), can I skip (file A)_(2014/06/13) and then continue to scan (file B)_(2014/06/14) which is a different file? Row: (file A)_(2014/06/14) d:1341069600 value d:1341069500 value d:1341069400 value Row: (file A)_(2014/06/13) d:1341059600 value d:1341059500 value d:1341059400 value Row: (file B)_(2014/06/14) d:1341069700 value d:1341069580 value d:1341069401 value 发自 Windows 邮件
