Hello,

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Weishung Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is all data written through hadoop including those from hbase saved in the
> above formats? It seems like SequenceFile is in key value pair format.

HBase provides its own format called HFile. See
http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFile.html
for details!

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Harsh J
http://harshj.com

Thank you for the info, HFile looks interesting, can't wait to dig into the
code and get a better understanding of HFile !

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Harsh J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Weishung Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Is all data written through hadoop including those from hbase saved in
> the
> > above formats? It seems like SequenceFile is in key value pair format.
>
> HBase provides its own format called HFile. See
> http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFile.html
> for details!
>
> --
> Harsh J
> http://harshj.com
>

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Ryan Rawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Curious, why do you mention "SequenceFile" and "TFile".  Neither of
> those are either in the hbase.io, and TFile is not used anywhere in
> HBase.

A cross-posting side-effect, I guess :-)

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Harsh J
http://harshj.com

I was exploring different file formats in hadoop initially but somehow the
search spanned into hbase i guess
Sorry for the confusion Ryan :D

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Harsh J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Ryan Rawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Curious, why do you mention "SequenceFile" and "TFile".  Neither of
> > those are either in the hbase.io, and TFile is not used anywhere in
> > HBase.
>
> A cross-posting side-effect, I guess :-)
>
> --
> Harsh J
> http://harshj.com
>