Unfortunately I don't think there is a clean way to achieve that (atleast not one that I know of). Your option at this point is to run your queries with a WHERE clause so that the predicate behind the scenes gets converted to a range scan and restricts the amount of data that is being getting scanned.
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:22 PM, MailingList <slayton.mailingl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Is it possible to define partitions for a external table backed by Hbase? > If so what is the proper syntax? > > I already have an external table backed by base and I'm finding that for > even simple SELECT queries the load isn't getting evenly distributed a > across the map tasks. Some tasks see as few as a few hundred map input > records while others receive more than a million. > > -- Swarnim
