title: How to retrieve the records based on a condition from a Hbase table?
body: <p>I have a Hbase table: employeedetails with column families:cols-personaldetails: firstname, lastname, professionaldetails: cols-company, empid
  and it has the following data in it.</p>
  
  <pre><code> 1    column=personaldetails:firstname, timestamp=1490959927100, value=Steven
   1    column=personaldetails:lastname, timestamp=1490959947478, value=Gerrard
   1    column=professionaldetails:company, timestamp=1490959968846, value=ABC
   1    column=professionaldetails:empid, timestamp=1490959978542, value=02429O
   2    column=personaldetails:firstname, timestamp=1490960007427, value=Sidhartha
   2    column=personaldetails:lastname, timestamp=1490960054615, value=Bobby
   2    column=professionaldetails:company, timestamp=1490960074243, value=DEF
   2    column=professionaldetails:empid, timestamp=1490960103882, value=02429N
   3    column=personaldetails:company, timestamp=1490960175772, value=WES
   3    column=personaldetails:empid, timestamp=1490960187863, value=987789
   3    column=personaldetails:firstname, timestamp=1490960128896, value=Sunny
   3    column=personaldetails:lastname, timestamp=1490960142031, value=Smith
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to write a command to retrieve the records whose first name starts with 'S'.</p>