Question

Point out the wrong statement.

(a) To read data from an HBase table, use the get() method of the HTable class

(b) You can retrieve data from the HBase table using the get() method of the HTable class

(c) While retrieving data, you can get a single row by id, or get a set of rows by a set of row ids, or scan an entire table or a subset of rows

(d) None of the mentioned

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Answer 1

The correct option is (d) None of the mentioned

For explanation: You can retrieve an HBase table data using the add method variants in Get class.