Hbase quickly count number of rows

Question

Right now I implement row count over ResultScanner like this

for (Result rs = scanner.next(); rs != null; rs = scanner.next()) {
    number++;
}         


        

Answer 1

U can find sample example here:

/**
     * Used to get the number of rows of the table
     * @param tableName
     * @param familyNames
     * @return the number of rows
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public long countRows(String tableName, String... familyNames) throws IOException {
        long rowCount = 0;
        Configuration configuration = connection.getConfiguration();
        // Increase RPC timeout, in case of a slow computation
        configuration.setLong("hbase.rpc.timeout", 600000);
        // Default is 1, set to a higher value for faster scanner.next(..)
        configuration.setLong("hbase.client.scanner.caching", 1000);

        AggregationClient aggregationClient = new AggregationClient(configuration);
        try {
            Scan scan = new Scan();
            if (familyNames != null && familyNames.length > 0) {
                for (String familyName : familyNames) {
                    scan.addFamily(Bytes.toBytes(familyName));
                }
            }
            rowCount = aggregationClient.rowCount(TableName.valueOf(tableName), new LongColumnInterpreter(), scan);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            throw new IOException(e);
        }
        return rowCount;
    }