What's the best way to find if a row exists?

[Rural Hunter <ru...@gmail.com>]

I plan to use 
HTable.exists(http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.html#exists%28org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get%29). 
But it seems it is used to check a cell(column). Is there a better way 
to just check if the row with specific key exists?

Re: What's the best way to find if a row exists?

[john guthrie <gr...@gmail.com>]

this is the use case for Bloom filters, isn't it? GETting rows when you're
not sure they exist


On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Monishsvce@gmail.com <mo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Specify only the row key in Get and use exists(Get g). This should solve
> your use case.
>
> - Monish
>
> > On 03-Jun-2014, at 11:47 am, Rural Hunter <ru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I plan to use HTable.exists(
> http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.html#exists%28org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get%29).
> But it seems it is used to check a cell(column). Is there a better way to
> just check if the row with specific key exists?
>

Re: What's the best way to find if a row exists?

["Monishsvce@gmail.com" <mo...@gmail.com>]

Specify only the row key in Get and use exists(Get g). This should solve your use case.

- Monish

> On 03-Jun-2014, at 11:47 am, Rural Hunter <ru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I plan to use HTable.exists(http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.html#exists%28org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get%29). But it seems it is used to check a cell(column). Is there a better way to just check if the row with specific key exists?