Hbase quickly count number of rows

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Use RowCounter in HBase
RowCounter is a mapreduce job to count all the rows of a table. This is a good utility to use as a sanity check to ensure that HBase can read all the blocks of a table if there are any concerns of metadata inconsistency. It will run the mapreduce all in a single process but it will run faster if you have a MapReduce cluster in place for it to exploit. 

$ hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.RowCounter <tablename>

Usage: RowCounter [options] 
    <tablename> [          
        --starttime=[start] 
        --endtime=[end] 
        [--range=[startKey],[endKey]] 
        [<column1> <column2>...]
    ]

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