Count number of records in a column family in an HBase table
问题 I'm looking for an HBase shell command that will count the number of records in a specified column family. I know I can run: echo "scan 'table_name'" | hbase shell | grep column_family_name | wc -l however this will run much slower than the standard counting command: count 'table_name' , CACHE => 50000 (because the use of the CACHE=>50000) and worse - it doesn't return the real number of records, but something like the total number of cells (if I'm not mistaken?) in the specified column