Hi I'm storing an array of attributes having attributes+index as qualifier name, my column family name is 'cf' here.
Each row in my HBase table that looks like below. cf:attribute1 -> 'value apple' cf:attribute2 -> 'value banana' cf:attribute{N} -> 'value iphone' cf:someId1 -> 1111 cf:someOtherQualifier -> 'value e' While reading data our of HBase I want to scan my table and use an *ValueFilter *on the cf:attribute* columns for a value (say "apple"). On a match I want the entirerows to be returned. Below are possible solutions for me - Add multiple SingleColumnValue filters for each attribute*. But I donot know the no. of items that will be present in attribute* also the list might go till 100 so will it affect the scan performance? - Store the attributes arraylist as ArrayWritable [1], I'm now sure how the scan filter's will work here. If any of you have any experience please help. - Implement my own filter and ship it in all my RS. *[1]:* http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/com.ning/metrics.action/0.2.0/org/apache/hadoop/io/ArrayWritable.java -- Thanks & Regards, *Mukesh Jha <me.mukesh....@gmail.com>*