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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:10:14 -0400
Subject: Re: Column Qualifier space requirements
From: Fuad Efendi <fuad@efendi.ca>
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Thanks;


It means that in order to save space I need to use smallest Column
Qualifier (and sometimes it makes sense)...

However, why Column Family (byte array) is repeated for each KeyValue? Is
it physically repeated for each cell?


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>Hi there, take a look at the Hbase Refguide here...
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>http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#regions.arch
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>For this section...
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>9.7.5.4. KeyValue
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>>Hi,
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>>Is column qualifier physically stored in a Cell? Or pointer to it? Do we
>>need to care about long size such as
>>my_very_long_qualifier:1
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>>(size of a value is small in comparison to size of qualifier=A9)
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>>thanks
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