https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Get-or-scan-to-use-for-retrieving-the-data-when-i-know-the/m-p/177410#M64504 Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:53:04 GMT vishnu_p 2017-07-09T10:53:04Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Get-or-scan-to-use-for-retrieving-the-data-when-i-know-the/m-p/177410#M64504 Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:53:04 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Get-or-scan-to-use-for-retrieving-the-data-when-i-know-the/m-p/177410#M64504 vishnu_p 2017-07-09T10:53:04Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Get-or-scan-to-use-for-retrieving-the-data-when-i-know-the/m-p/177411#M64505 <P>When you know the row key you can use Get. HBase should automatically convert the Scan with same start and end key as get. With the get the block reads in a HFile are positional reads(better for random reads) than seek + read(better for scanning).</P> Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:43:52 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Get-or-scan-to-use-for-retrieving-the-data-when-i-know-the/m-p/177411#M64505 rchintaguntla 2017-07-10T17:43:52Z