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Geomesa attribute index in HBase

HBase doesn't support the secondary index, but Geomesa which stores data on top of HBase supports the attribute indexing. How is that possible?

Solution

  • GeoMesa stores multiple copies of your data, using different HBase tables for each different index.

    Edit: there is some documentation here on the different index implementations. In HBase, each index is a separate table.