Hi Nishanth, Take a look at http://hbase.apache.org/book/client.filter.html . If I understand your use case correctly, you might want to look at RegexStringComparator to match the first 1000 characters of your column qualifier.
-Dima On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Nishanth S <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an hbase table with multiple cfs (say c1,c2,c3).Each of this column > family has a column 'message' which is about 5K.What I need to do is to > grab only the first 1000 Characters of this message when I do a get on the > table using row Key.I was thinking of using filters to do this on hbase > sever side.Can some one help me on how to go about this. > > > Thanks, > Nishan >
