Mitch, Short answer… no, it doesn’t scale.
Longer answer… You are using an UUID as the row key? Why? (My guess is that you want to avoid hot spotting) So you’re going to have to pull in all of the data… meaning a full table scan… and then perform a sort order transformation, dropping the UUID in the process. You would be better off not using HBase and storing the data in Parquet files in a directory partitioned on date. Or rather the rowkey would be the max_ts - TS so that your data is in LIFO. Note: I’ve used the term epoch to describe the max value of a long (8 bytes of ‘FF’ ) for the max_ts. This isn’t a good use of the term epoch, but if anyone has a better term, please let me know. Having said that… if you want to use HBase, you could do the same thing. If you want to avoid hot spotting, you could load the day’s transactions using a bulk loader so that you don’t have to worry about splits. But that’s just my $0.02 cents worth. HTH -Mike PS. If you wanted to capture the transactions… you could do the following schemea: 1) Rowkey = max_ts - TS 2) Rows contain the following: CUSIP (Transaction ID) Party 1 (Seller) Party 2 (Buyer) Symbol Qty Price This is a trade ticket. On Oct 16, 2016, at 1:37 PM, Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com<mailto:mich.talebza...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, I have trade data stored in Hbase table. Data arrives in csv format to HDFS and then loaded into Hbase via periodic load with org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.ImportTsv. The Hbase table has one Column family "trade_info" and three columns: ticker, timecreated, price. The RowKey is UUID. So each row has UUID, ticker, timecreated and price in the csv file Each row in Hbase is a key, value map. In my case, I have one Column Family and three columns. Without going into semantics I see Hbase as a column oriented database where column data stay together. So I thought of this way of accessing the data. I define an RDD for each column in the column family as below. In this case column trade_info:ticker //create rdd val hBaseRDD = sc.newAPIHadoopRDD(conf, classOf[TableInputFormat],classOf[org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable],classOf[org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result]) val rdd1 = hBaseRDD.map(tuple => tuple._2).map(result => (result.getRow, result.getColumn("price_info".getBytes(), "ticker".getBytes()))).map(row => { ( row._1.map(_.toChar).mkString, row._2.asScala.reduceLeft { (a, b) => if (a.getTimestamp > b.getTimestamp) a else b }.getValue.map(_.toChar).mkString ) }) case class columns (key: String, ticker: String) val dfticker = rdd1.toDF.map(p => columns(p(0).toString,p(1).toString)) Note that the end result is a DataFrame with the RowKey -> key and column -> ticker I use the same approach to create two other DataFrames, namely dftimecreated and dfprice for the two other columns. Note that if I don't need a column, then I do not create a DF for it. So a DF with each column I use. I am not sure how this compares if I read the full row through other methods if any. Anyway all I need to do after creating a DataFrame for each column is to join themthrough RowKey to slice and dice data. Like below. Get me the latest prices ordered by timecreated and ticker (ticker is stock) val rs = dfticker.join(dftimecreated,"key").join(dfprice,"key").orderBy('timecreated desc, 'price desc).select('timecreated, 'ticker, 'price.cast("Float").as("Latest price")) rs.show(10) +-------------------+------+------------+ | timecreated|ticker|Latest price| +-------------------+------+------------+ |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S16| 97.631966| |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S13| 92.11406| |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S19| 85.93021| |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S09| 85.714645| |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S15| 82.38932| |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S17| 80.77747| |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S06| 79.81854| |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S18| 74.10128| |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S07| 66.13622| |2016-10-16T18:44:57| S20| 60.35727| +-------------------+------+------------+ only showing top 10 rows Is this a workable solution? Thanks Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com<http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> Disclaimer: Use it at your own risk. Any and all responsibility for any loss, damage or destruction of data or any other property which may arise from relying on this email's technical content is explicitly disclaimed. The author will in no case be liable for any monetary damages arising from such loss, damage or destruction.
