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The primary data access pattern is by row key. No design-time way to specify row keys exists because to HBase they are simply byte arrays. When designing for optimal read performance, it is important to first understand the read path.
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© 2016 Deepak Vohra
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Vohra, D. (2016). Defining the Row Keys. In: Apache HBase Primer. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2424-3_15
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