If you put all values from columns into the row key, you wouldn't be able to utilize the benefits column families bring you (e.g. essential column family feature)
See: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#columnfamily Cheers On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:13 PM, yl wu <wuyl6...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to design the row key for a table. Our application would > perform many queries on columns. My question is that is that a good way to > put all values from columns into the row key? Thus I can use filters like > FuzzyRowFilter to get rows and parse the values directly from row keys. How > would this affect the read performance with a long row key? Would it be > worse than use column filters to fetch data from regular columns? > > Any opinion and experience would be really appreciated. Thank you very much > ! > > Best, > Yanglin >
