HBase- Delete multiple rows

Question

I have a HBase table with millions of rows. I now want to delete around 70,000 rows from this table. For each of the row I have the complete rowkey needed. So I can issue the following command:

delete 'tablename','rowkey'

But instead of running a delete command 70,000 times, is there any bulk operation I can use? I'm on HBase 0.98.

Thanks

Answer 1

Use the Scan class of HBase Client Java API. This allows you to delete bulk amount of data easily. I do have some sample code here in this answer.