Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-hbase-dev-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 93070 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2008 02:03:51 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 3 Mar 2008 02:03:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 72780 invoked by uid 500); 3 Mar 2008 02:03:46 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-hbase-dev-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 72763 invoked by uid 500); 3 Mar 2008 02:03:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact hbase-dev-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: hbase-dev@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list hbase-dev@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 72752 invoked by uid 99); 3 Mar 2008 02:03:46 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:03:46 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.142.189] (HELO ti-out-0910.google.com) (209.85.142.189) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:03:12 +0000 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b8so6257509tic.9 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:03:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.148.7 with SMTP id v7mr4255253ybd.95.1204509798617; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:03:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.151.109.10 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 18:03:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:03:18 +0900 From: "edward yoon" To: hbase-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: How to use hbase to manage binary data. In-Reply-To: <944750dd0803021742g48c6c10at1d82ef8ddc6102da@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <944750dd0803021742g48c6c10at1d82ef8ddc6102da@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org I would recommend direct store into cell. Using an column qualifiers, you also can store the file attributes and informations as a file header writing. On 3/3/08, Mafish Liu wrote: > Hi, > In my application, there are millions of small binary files and I try to > manage them in hbase. > How can I store them in binary format? > Thanks. > > Mafish > > -- > Mafish@gmail.com > Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. > -- B. Regards, Edward yoon @ NHN, corp.