title: Is running scan on Hbase faster if running HBase on more than 1 machine?
body: <p>I need to do a scan on HBase table for my adhoc queries. Currently I'm using just a single node. I was wondering if running HBase in distributed mode on more than 1 machine might make it faster. It currently takes around 5 mins to do a scan on 3 million rows on a m1.large EC2 machine.
  Any ideas on how to make scan faster are welcome. Currently, I have scan.setCaching enabled which has helped a lot</p>