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HBase Indexed Table
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Using HBase TableIndexed from Thrift with unique keys
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[http://kdpeterson.net/blog/2009/09/using-hbase-tableindexed-from-thrift-with-unique-keys.html]

HBase is primarily a sorted distributed hash map, but it does support secondary keys through a contrib package called Transactional HBase. The secondary keys are provided by a component called TableIndexed.




= Secondary indexes in HBase =
[http://rajeev1982.blogspot.com/2009/06/secondary-indexes-in-hbase.html]

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#!java
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HColumnDescriptor;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HConstants;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scanner;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.tableindexed.IndexSpecification;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.tableindexed.IndexedTable;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.tableindexed.IndexedTableAdmin;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter.ColumnValueFilter;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter.ColumnValueFilter.CompareOp;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.BatchUpdate;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.RowResult;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;

public class SecondaryIndexTest {
    public void writeToTable() throws IOException {
        HBaseConfiguration conf = new HBaseConfiguration();
        conf.addResource(new Path("/opt/hbase-0.19.3/conf/hbase-site.xml"));

        IndexedTable table = new IndexedTable(conf, Bytes.toBytes("test_table"));

        String row = "test_row";
        BatchUpdate update = null;

        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
            update = new BatchUpdate(row + i);
            update.put("columnfamily1:column1", Bytes.toBytes("value1-" + i));
            update.put("columnfamily1:column2", Bytes.toBytes("value2-" + i));
            table.commit(update);
        }

        table.close();
    }

    public void readAllRowsFromSecondaryIndex() throws IOException {
        HBaseConfiguration conf = new HBaseConfiguration();
        conf.addResource(new Path("/opt/hbase-0.19.3/conf/hbase-site.xml"));

        IndexedTable table = new IndexedTable(conf, Bytes.toBytes("test_table"));

        Scanner scanner = table.getIndexedScanner("column1",
            HConstants.EMPTY_START_ROW, null, null, new byte[][] {
            Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column1"),
                Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column2") });

        for (RowResult rowResult : scanner) {
            System.out.println(Bytes.toString(
                rowResult.get(Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column1")).getValue())
                + ", " + Bytes.toString(rowResult.get(
                Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column2")).getValue()
                ));
        }

        table.close();
    }

    public void readFilteredRowsFromSecondaryIndex() throws IOException {
        HBaseConfiguration conf = new HBaseConfiguration();
        conf.addResource(new Path("/opt/hbase-0.19.3/conf/hbase-site.xml"));

        IndexedTable table = new IndexedTable(conf, Bytes.toBytes("test_table"));

        ColumnValueFilter filter = 
            new ColumnValueFilter(Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column1"), 
            CompareOp.LESS, Bytes.toBytes("value1-40"));

        Scanner scanner = table.getIndexedScanner("column1", 
            HConstants.EMPTY_START_ROW, null, filter, 
            new byte[][] { Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column1"),
                Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column2")
            });

        for (RowResult rowResult : scanner) {
            System.out.println(Bytes.toString(
                rowResult.get(Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column1")).getValue())
                + ", " + Bytes.toString(rowResult.get(
                Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column2")).getValue()
                ));
        }

        table.close();
    }

    public void createTableWithSecondaryIndexes() throws IOException {
        HBaseConfiguration conf = new HBaseConfiguration();
        conf.addResource(new Path("/opt/hbase-0.19.3/conf/hbase-site.xml"));

        HTableDescriptor desc = new HTableDescriptor("test_table");

        desc.addFamily(new HColumnDescriptor("columnfamily1:column1"));
        desc.addFamily(new HColumnDescriptor("columnfamily1:column2"));

        desc.addIndex(new IndexSpecification("column1",
            Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column1")));
        desc.addIndex(new IndexSpecification("column2",
            Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column2")));

        IndexedTableAdmin admin = null;
        admin = new IndexedTableAdmin(conf);

        if (admin.tableExists(Bytes.toBytes("test_table"))) {
            if (admin.isTableEnabled("test_table")) {
                admin.disableTable(Bytes.toBytes("test_table"));
            }

            admin.deleteTable(Bytes.toBytes("test_table"));
        }

        if (admin.tableExists(Bytes.toBytes("test_table-column1"))) {
            if (admin.isTableEnabled("test_table-column1")) {
                admin.disableTable(Bytes.toBytes("test_table-column1"));
            }

            admin.deleteTable(Bytes.toBytes("test_table-column1"));
        }

        admin.createTable(desc);
    }

    public void addSecondaryIndexToExistingTable() throws IOException {
        HBaseConfiguration conf = new HBaseConfiguration();
        conf.addResource(new Path("/opt/hbase-0.19.3/conf/hbase-site.xml"));

        IndexedTableAdmin admin = null;
        admin = new IndexedTableAdmin(conf);

        admin.addIndex(Bytes.toBytes("test_table"), 
            new IndexSpecification("column2", 
            Bytes.toBytes("columnfamily1:column2")));
    }

    public void removeSecondaryIndexToExistingTable() throws IOException {
        HBaseConfiguration conf = new HBaseConfiguration();
        conf.addResource(new Path("/opt/hbase-0.19.3/conf/hbase-site.xml"));

        IndexedTableAdmin admin = null;
        admin = new IndexedTableAdmin(conf);

        admin.removeIndex(Bytes.toBytes("test_table"), "column2");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        SecondaryIndexTest test = new SecondaryIndexTest();

        test.createTableWithSecondaryIndexes();
        test.writeToTable();
        test.addSecondaryIndexToExistingTable();
        test.removeSecondaryIndexToExistingTable();
        test.readAllRowsFromSecondaryIndex();
        test.readFilteredRowsFromSecondaryIndex();

        System.out.println("Done!");
    }
}
}}}