Index: src/docbkx/book.xml
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-
- Column Metadata
- There is no store of column metadata outside of the internal KeyValue instances for a ColumnFamily.
- Thus, while HBase can support not only a wide number of columns per row, but a heterogenous set of columns
- between rows, it is your responsibility to keep track of the column names.
-
- The only way to get a complete set of columns that exist for a ColumnFamily is to process all the rows.
- For more information about how HBase stores data internally, see .
-
-
@@ -537,6 +527,16 @@
+
+ Column Metadata
+ There is no store of column metadata outside of the internal KeyValue instances for a ColumnFamily.
+ Thus, while HBase can support not only a wide number of columns per row, but a heterogenous set of columns
+ between rows as well, it is your responsibility to keep track of the column names.
+
+ The only way to get a complete set of columns that exist for a ColumnFamily is to process all the rows.
+ For more information about how HBase stores data internally, see .
+
+
Joins
Whether HBase supports joins is a common question on the dist-list, and there is a simple answer: it doesn't,
at not least in the way that RDBMS' support them (e.g., with equi-joins or outer-joins in SQL). As has been illustrated