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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 09:21:07 -0700
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Subject: Re: Changing the key in Hbase
From: Stack <stack@duboce.net>
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Anand <anand_pa10@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a case in which i have to change the keys for the values inserted in
> hbase. The cluster is having some 200 million urls. Earlier we have inserted the
> keys by constructing 128 bit hash code for the key string. Now i have to change
> the key alone for those records by changing them into 64 bit hash code and
> maintain the values. Is there any other way to do this other than getting all
> the values one by one and creating a new key and adding the old value to it and
> reinserting??
>

Yes.  You'll have to reinsert.
St.Ack