Yes, key order is guaranteed.

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Dave Birdsall <dave.birdsall@esgyn.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> Suppose I have an HBase table with many regions, and possibly many rows in
> the memstore from recent additions.
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> Suppose I have a program that opens a Scan on the table, from start to
> finish. Full table scan.
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> Does HBase guarantee that rows are returned in key order? Or might it jump
> around, say, read one region first, then maybe another (and not necessarily
> in region order)?
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> Thanks,
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> Dave
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