From user-return-14387-apmail-hbase-user-archive=hbase.apache.org@hbase.apache.org Thu Dec 09 00:57:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hbase-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 25739 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2010 00:57:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 9 Dec 2010 00:57:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 68923 invoked by uid 500); 9 Dec 2010 00:57:38 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hbase-user-archive@hbase.apache.org Received: (qmail 68894 invoked by uid 500); 9 Dec 2010 00:57:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@hbase.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@hbase.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@hbase.apache.org Received: (qmail 68886 invoked by uid 99); 9 Dec 2010 00:57:38 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:57:38 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of phaidinyak@local.com designates 70.183.28.5 as permitted sender) Received: from [70.183.28.5] (HELO mail11.local.com) (70.183.28.5) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:57:32 +0000 Received: from IRV1HUBCAS01.eLiberation.com (10.1.190.40) by mail11.local.com (10.1.230.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.83.0; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:57:28 -0800 Received: from IRV1EXMB01.eLiberation.com ([fe80::895:3aed:8948:77ab]) by IRV1HUBCAS01.eLiberation.com ([fe80::7853:3c40:9449:94df%13]) with mapi; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:57:10 -0800 From: Peter Haidinyak To: "user@hbase.apache.org" Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:57:09 -0800 Subject: RE: Writing a unique filter Thread-Topic: Writing a unique filter Thread-Index: AcuXOZ5P1lHiBFakTVyiQyl8pdjnugAAku4A Message-ID: <321C2E54215EEB41A581FDD9DAECBC5DFCC73BB8@IRV1EXMB01.eLiberation.com> References: <321C2E54215EEB41A581FDD9DAECBC5DFCC73B9C@IRV1EXMB01.eLiberation.com> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org That's what I thought. Thanks -Pete -----Original Message----- From: saint.ack@gmail.com [mailto:saint.ack@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stack Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:40 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Writing a unique filter I don't follow? You want to find all unique cells? If so, that sounds like the canonical MapReduce word counter job. St.Ack On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Peter Haidinyak wrot= e: > Hidey ho, > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Is there a way to write a filter that would return a uniqu= e set of values for a family:column? Or would this fall into a Map/Reduce t= ype of job? > > As always, Thanks > > -Pete >