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How describe Hbase column family?

I am looking for a command which describes the columnfamily inside the table from the HBase Shell. I could not get any command to try this.

Solution

  • If you use the describe command from the hbase shell you'll get the information for each column family. Currently, there is no way to filter on a single family.

    Example:

    hbase(main):003:0> describe 'TABLE_NAME'
 'TABLE_NAME',
 {NAME => 'FAMILY_NAME',
  DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE',
  BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW',
  REPLICATION_ true                                          
  SCOPE => '0',
  VERSIONS => '1',
  COMPRESSION => 'NONE',
  MIN_VERSIONS => '0', TTL => '2147483647',
  KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'false',
  BLOCKSIZE => '65536',
  IN_MEMORY => 'false',
  BLOCKCACHE => 'true'
 }