[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-4811) Support reverse Scan

["Lars Hofhansl (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-4811:
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I think we dropped the ball on this. We should finish this. How do other folks feel about this.
The feature is great! We just have to be careful to avoid adding unnecessary APIs to the core scanner classes.
                
> Support reverse Scan
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>                 Key: HBASE-4811
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4811
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Client
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.6, 0.94.7
>            Reporter: John Carrino
>            Assignee: Liang Xie
>         Attachments: 4811-trunk-v10.txt, 4811-trunk-v5.patch, HBase-4811-0.94.3modified.txt, HBase-4811-0.94-v2.txt, hbase-4811-trunkv11.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv12.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv13.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv14.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv1.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv4.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv6.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv7.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv8.patch, hbase-4811-trunkv9.patch
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> All the documentation I find about HBase says that if you want forward and reverse scans you should just build 2 tables and one be ascending and one descending.  Is there a fundamental reason that HBase only supports forward Scan?  It seems like a lot of extra space overhead and coding overhead (to keep them in sync) to support 2 tables.  
> I am assuming this has been discussed before, but I can't find the discussions anywhere about it or why it would be infeasible.

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