[HBASE-15475] Allow TimestampsFilter to provide a seek hint

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0, 0.98.19, 2.0.0
• Component/s: Client, Filters, regionserver
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Elliott Neil Clark
• Reporter: Elliott Neil Clark
• Created: 17/Mar/16 03:53
• Updated: 09/Nov/17 00:21
• Resolved: 24/Mar/16 02:26

Description

If a user wants to read specific timestamps currently it's a very linear scan. This is so that all deletes can be respected. However if the user doesn't care about deletes it can dramatically speed up the request to seek.