Exactly! So if you don’t need to know if your table is bucketed or not. You just put() or get()/scan() like it any other table.
> On Apr 30, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Andrew Mains <andrew.ma...@kontagent.com> wrote: > > Thanks all again for the replies--this is a very interesting discussion :). > > @Michael HBASE-12853 is definitely an interesting proposition for our > (Upsight's) use case--we've done a moderate amount of work to make our reads > over the bucketed table efficient using hive. In particular, we added support > for predicate pushdown to multiple scans, which allows us to read only a > specific range within each bucket--see HIVE-7805. If I understand correctly, > with HBASE-12853 we could make that pushdown work transparently--that is, the > client code could just push down a single scan, which would then be fanned > out to each bucket. It would certainly make our code somewhat cleaner (we > currently create a scan with our predicate for each bucket, and then push all > of those to MultiTableInputFormat). > > Best, > > Andrew > > > On 4/30/15 12:36 PM, Michael Segel wrote: >> The downside >> >>here is that you will lose your ability to perform range scans > > The opinions expressed here are mine, while they may reflect a cognitive thought, that is purely accidental. Use at your own risk. Michael Segel michael_segel (AT) hotmail.com
